Zehava Galon, head of the Meretz party, on Wednesday claimed she had been blacklisted by the newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, whose publisher is currently under police investigation. Galon was responding to a Wednesday column in Yedioth by Nahum Barnea, who criticized the left-wing lawmaker for not supporting a proposed law in 2014 which would have forced the free, pro-Netanyahu Israel Hayom paper to have a cover charge.

Politicians criticize Netanyahu’s conduct following probe into Israeli leader’s alleged acceptance of hundreds of thousands of shekels worth of cigars from businessman Arnon Milchan Zionist Union MK Shelly Yachimovich criticized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Saturday for taking gifts from a “sugar daddy,” following reports that the Israeli leader had been questioned by the police for allegedly accepting expensive cigars for years from Hollywood producer and businessman Arnon Milchan, as well as more goods from a second businessman. “The Prime Minister had a sugar daddy for expensive products, it is corruption for its own sake, so it seems,” Yachimovich said at an event in Tel Aviv, according to Israel Radio.