Police are to reportedly to question all nine lawmakers who pushed a 2014 law that would have curtailed the distribution of free newspapers, a move seen targeting the Israel Hayom daily.
The law, which never came about, is the center of an investigation into Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who allegedly offered to help pass the bill in a quid pro quo deal with Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Arnon Mozes.
Among those set to be questioned are Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked of the Jewish Home party. Other lawmakers behind the bill were from the Zionist Union, Meretz, Shas, Yesh Atid and Yisrael Beytenu parties, Walla reports.
Mozes reportedly told Netanyahu he would help him stay in power for as long as he wanted if he would curtail the free daily, his main competitor.
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