Channel 2 television's flagship satire program, Eretz Nehederet (Wonderful Country) came in for criticism Monday at a hearing of the Knesset's Education Committee regarding a controversial promotional announcement for the show. The clip, which is aired repeatedly throughout the day - including times when children are likely to see it - shows the program's stars in a state of complete undress, daubing paint on each other in a sexually suggestive and sometimes homoerotic manner.
Member of Knesset Yaakov "Ketzaleh" Katz (National Union), who has been personally targeted by the program, used the opportunity to settle some scores with the program's creators. “There will come a day when we will be in power," he warned, "and there will be retroactive laws and it will be possible to prosecute all those who were tainted with anti-Semitism towards the settlers and towards the Jewish people and towards the IDF.”