According to Israel’s Channel 13 television, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu can forget about any future contact or support from the man who has been his major funder and political patron throughout his ten years at the government’s helm. The report came as no surprise to those who have followed the several corruption investigations against Netanyahu and heard how the PM was willing to act in ways detrimental to Adelson’s interests in order to secure positive coverage from his nemesis, another newspaper owner in competition with the casino magnate. A strong political right-winger, Adelson heeded Netanyahu’s request that Adelson launch a newspaper that would, by Netanyahu’s reckoning, become the only one not dedicated to his political demise. The paper, Israel Today, became the nation’s leading paper as Adelson dove into his deep pockets to make it a free-distribution outlet despite the cost of doing so. But he reportedly became livid when told of Netanyahu’s willingness to throw him and his newspaper under the bus in an attempt to cut a deal with the daily Yediot Aharonot’s owner Arnon Mozes at his expense. By that time Liberal politicians had become so unsettled by the success of Israel Today that legislation was launched that would make it illegal to have a free-distribution newspaper filling a description that applied only to Adelson’s paper. Remarkably undisturbed by issues of press freedoms, the pending legislation was gaining traction when according to testimony Netanyahu and Mozes negotiated positive coverage of Netanyahu during the period leading up to elections while in return Netanyahu would maneuver in favor of the anti-Adelson bill. Although Netanyahu has since said he would not have gone through with the deal, longtime chief donor and patron Adelson reportedly has told police investigators that he “will never again meet with Netanyahu.”