Israel's government approved on Sunday a proposal by Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi that dictates any government funded body will not hold any communication with Haaretz, nor run any ads in the paper. The proposal was approved by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
The decision comes after Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken's speech at the Haaretz conference in London last month, in which he said: "The Netanyahu government doesn't care about imposing a cruel apartheid regime on the Palestinian population. It dismisses the costs of both sides for defending the settlements while fighting the Palestinian freedom fighters, that Israel calls terrorists."