Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leaves his hospital bed post-surgery to ensure the approval of a critical budget bill in the Knesset plenum. The bill allows the government to tax 'trapped profits' earned by corporations and multinationals. With a thin margin of 59-58, Netanyahu's presence was essential for the bill's passing. Netanyahu convinced a member of his far-right Otzma Yehudit party to vote with the coalition and managed to prevent opposition from two members of the United Torah Judaism's Agudat Yisrael faction. The bill is one of two that must be passed by midnight to prevent a budget deficit of approximately NIS 15 billion ($4 billion).