The audio recording of Yair Netanyahu’s night of excess continues to make waves in Israeli politics. On Jan. 11, three days after the recording was aired, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and several of his most loyal ministers began calling for new rules and legislation to prevent themselves from being recorded by workers in their immediate vicinity. These calls served to stir attention away from the discussion surrounding the junior Netanyahu's behavior.

The prime minister skillfully diverted the discussion at a Cabinet meeting originally scheduled to go over the state budget, turning it instead toward the “need” to take urgent steps to protect ministers from being recorded and extorted. Netanyahu couldn't have hoped for better spin. After all, the whole world has been privy to the nauseating way his son spoke about women and his visits to strip clubs with a state-appointed, taxpayer-funded driver and security guard at his beck and call.

It took Netanyahu three whole days to shift the focus. Once he got over the shock, and after a feeble apology and a complaint about how his family is being persecuted, Netanyahu managed to focus the public's attention elsewhere by enlisting the support of his ministers in a fight against the man who supposedly recorded his son along with any would-be recorders in the future.

Kicking off the discussion at the Cabinet meeting was Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev. It is quite possible that she first coordinated her remarks with Netanyahu to serve as the trigger for dealing with the issue. Regev called for an investigation into the leak of the recording and complained that ministers have become hostages to their drivers and security guards.