After hours of unsuccessful labor and not knowing how to perform a cesarean, the doctors used a scalpel to sever the baby inside the woman's birth passage.
An employee at one of the churches told AFP news agency that people inside the church had fought back with sticks, but that the attacker had tried to escape through an underground passage.
But the bill's preliminary passage, and the prime minister's discomfiture, may mean that the widespread distrust of Mr Netanyahu inside his own coalition is generating a logic of its own.