Government nearly falls over conversion spat, then cuts off nose to spite face

The Jewish Home party vented its anger over a bill that would remove power over conversions from the Chief Rabbinate by having all its non-minister MK's walk out of a no-confidence vote. After the government survived the no-confidence vote by four votes, the coalition chairman removed all of the Jewish Home's bills from the agenda, including party leader Naftali Bennett's bill to lower food