MK Oded Forer (Yisrael Beytenu), who revealed in the Knesset debate the fact that officials of the haredi-religious newspaper Hapeles are harassing senior officials of the government advertising agency and various advertisers for failing to send advertisements to the newspaper, congratulated the Ministry of Justice and the Government Advertising Agency on the decision to stop advertising government offices in the radical newspaper.
Forer said, "Closing the faucet to one of the main shofars of haredi incitement against IDF soldiers is commendable. The conduct of the newspaper's senior executives toward the advertisers added to the bullyish behavior of the 'Hapeles' to anyone who disagreed with the newspaper's dangerous agenda, and I very much hope that it will straighten up or we'll make sure that it is outlawed."