Shas Knesset Members have blocked a move to appoint Labor MK Prof. Avishai Braverman as chairman of the powerful Knesset Finance Committee. Labor had thought that MK Braverman's appointment was certain.
However, Shas worked during the night to lobby other committee members to vote against him to replace MK Stas Misezhnikov, a member of the Israel Is Our Home (Yisrael Beiteinu) party that quit the coalition earlier this year.