However, the paper was soon hit by a scandal as it published details of the Kav 300 affair in violation of the Israeli Military Censor.
During the 1990s, the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee appointed a subcommittee, chaired by Yossi Sarid, to examine the existence and role of the Military Censor.
Due to Israel's strict Military Censorship the details of the affair could not be openly discussed in the media.
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The arrest was kept secret by the Israeli military censor until an Acre municipal court judge accepted the newspaper Haaretz's request to lift the ban on publication of the affair.