Israeli journalist Tomer Avital received a 1 ½-hour tape recording made at a closed political meeting in October with former Communications and Welfare Services Minister Moshe Kahlon. The former minister is heard in the recording talking rather freely on what is going on behind the scenes of Israel’s leadership, and explaining how the ''give-and-take'' mechanism between senior politicians and politico wheeler-dealers actually works. Kahlon further described the pressures that were exerted on him at the time, to stop the successful cellular reform that he had initiated. Inter alia, he received a phone call from a senior army officer, warning him that opening the cellular market to competition would be detrimental to the air defense Iron Dome project.
Avital gave publicity to the tape recording in his blog, and the story made waves in the mainstream media, too.