Knesset debate follies pile up

A coalition lawmaker accidentally votes with the opposition, creating a 60-60 tie on one of the opposition’s objections to the two-year budget. The Finance Committee must now convene to discuss the objection, dragging out the proceedings further. According to Channel 2, Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel was the guilty party.

Zionist Union MK Merav Michaeli writes a letter to the Knesset speaker asking him to postpone Thursday’s debates on the mandatory draft law. The opposition MK signs the letter as “coalition” whip.

And Netanyahu himself nearly votes in favor of one of the clauses, but corrects himself in time.

Likud MK Oren Hazan, who was hospitalized earlier this week for an asthma attack and sinus infection, is sitting in the Knesset plenum with an oxygen tank and a doctor on hand.