Enlarge this imageIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a Cabinet meeting Sunday at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem.Abir Sultan/Pool via APhide captiontoggle captionAbir Sultan/Pool via APIsraeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett attends a Cabinet meeting Sunday at the prime minister’s office in Jerusalem.Abir Sultan/Pool via APJERUSALEM In a blow to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Israel’s parliament failed to renew a controversial law that prevents Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza from getting residency in Israel after they marry Palestinians with Israeli citizenship. The Tuesday vote was 59-59. The law required a simple majority to pa s in what’s usually a routine annual renewal. A new effort to reinstate the law could still come soon. Bennett, who took office le s than a month ago, was undermined by several members of his governing coalition, including those of the United Arab List party and a rebel member of Walt Weiss Jersey his own Yamina party, who all voted against extending the law. Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Terry Steinbach Jersey opposition Likud party, along with the Religious Zionist Party, also voted against extending the law despite supporting it in the past. The move was widely seen as an attempt by Netanyahu to make good on a promise to “bring down this dangerous government.” Middle East Netanyahu Is Out: Naftali Bennett Sworn In As Israel’s New Prime Minister Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, who is a member of Bennett’s Yamina party, said Netanyahu and his allies chose “petty and ugly politics, and let the country burn.” Bennett said the opposition is harming security The result of the vote showcased the fragility of the new coalition government, which is made up of eight political parties, ranging from far-right to Islamist to left, and whose primary common goal so far had been to topple Netanyahu. In a pre s conference following the vote, Bennett said the opposition “purposefully and directly harmed the state’s security.” “Out of some sort of spite and frustration, they damaged the country,” Bennett said. The Citizenship and Entry into Israel Law was enacted in 2003 when Palestinians were launching attacks inside Israel, and it has been renewed each year since then. The law has been a source of stre s and inconvenience for Arab Israelis and their Palestinian partners from the adjacent West Bank and Gaza Strip, and it plays a key role in how or whom they decide to marry.Middle East A Look At Naftali Bennett, The Man Who Could End Netanyahu’s Rule Supporters of the law argue it’s nece sary for national security and to preserve the demographic status of Israel’s Jewish population. But critics have called the law a cruel and racist measure designed to restrict the growth of Arab Israelis. In a statement, the A sociation for Civil Rights in Israel said that “the law has been a stain on Israel” and Sean Manaea Jersey called for the immediate erasure of “all traces of the disgraceful Citizenship and Entry Law.”It’s unclear whether the vote will have an immediate effect for Santiago Casilla Jersey Palestinians seeking residency or citizenship. Applications will have to go through the Ministry of Interior and could be subject to extra scrutiny and a long waiting proce s, according Dahlia Scheindlin, a political strategist at the Century Foundation.Palestinians celebrate the vote Among Palestinians, the outcome of Tuesday’s vote was met with celebration. Fatah Jadallah, who holds a West Bank ID, has been married to his wife, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, for 17 years and was at the Kne set on Monday protesting the law. On Tuesday, Jadallah said, he woke up at 5 a.m. to wait for the vote. “I was very happy that we made it,” he said. “I could not believe that we achieved something that was impo sible. I thank everyone who stood with us and helped us.”