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.

Avital is a freelance journalist — a “journalist on behalf of the public,” as he puts it. He used to cover the Israeli parliament for the daily Calcalist. In that capacity, he exposed in February 2013 the "pistachio ice cream” scandal concerning the premier's expenditure bills, which involved the prime minister and his wife.

In July, Avital started a social-journalistic Internet enterprise under the heading “One hundred days of transparency.” His goal is straightforward: “To subject the elected public officials to different and new standards of public transparency.” Avital has to his credit a number of other achievements, in addition to exposing the Kahlon tape recording. Among other things, Avital has drawn public attention to the specific timing chosen by former Interior Minister Gideon Saar to hand in his notice, which allowed him to maximize his retirement allowance. Other scandals that came to light thanks to Avital include his report on the numerous trips abroad of Labor Knesset member Nachman Shai, and his disclosure concerning the frequent absence from parliamentary meetings of the two Kadima Knesset members.