The Opposition registered another victory in the Knesset on Wednesday night when it was successful in voting down Amendments to Legislative Implementation of Economic Policy for the 2017 and 2018 Budget Changes in its third reading

48 Members of Knesset supported the bill and 48 opposed it. A bill requires a majority to become law.

The chairman of the Knesset’s Economics Committee, MK Michael Bitton, who presented the bill, explained that the amendment to the Broadcasting Law stipulates that content providers that are platforms for distributing broadcasts on the Internet will be able to receive free of charge the broadcasts of certain television channels distributed on the “Idan Plus” system.

Seeing it did not have a majority, the Coalition withdrew the other issues it intended to present to a vote.

The bill relates to minute details of little significance, but with the Knesset’s extremely contentious atmosphere and the vicious rivalry between Coalition and Opposition, the event was celebrated by the latter as a major victory.

Both sides accused each other of wrongdoings and improper maneuvers.

Opposition member MK Shlomo Karhi (Likud) recounted that “at three in the morning, we were able to vote down a law presented by the government that was very urgent for it so it could transfer millions to TV Channels 11,12,13 at our expense.”

“We will continue to fight until the overthrowing of this bad government,” he vowed.

The Coalition, with its very slim majority, has previously lost votes in the Knesset.