Veteran television and radio commentator Yaakov Achimeir called Arutz-7 today in the framework of the telethon, and made the following public comments:
"I would like to express my astonishment, mixed with protest, at the fact that I have not seen my journalist colleagues raising an eyebrow while broadcasters and journalists of Arutz-7 are brought for police investigation.  I think that everything must be done within the framework of the law, but at least the journalists should be asking, 'What's going on here?', or [calling for a] speedy end to the story, expressing a hope that the story should end and that a legal solution should be found for Arutz-7. 
I can assume that if a different ideological body was at issue, then it is very likely that the Journalists Association, of which I a dues-paying member, would have sounded some sort of statement... It is not conceivable that all the thousands of members would sit by quietly...
  I did not turn to the organization, but I am now speaking publicly, and maybe some of them are hearing me now, and maybe they will ask themselves what is this silence of the National Journalists Association... I hear now that some of the Arutz-7 staff are members of the association, and this is even more astonishing.  And I know that Arutz-7 pays royalties to the musicians of Israel for their music, and they too are silent?!  This means that they are only willing to accept money from Arutz-7, but not willing to say a word of encouragement when the station goes through hard times?!..."

There is no doubt that the intentional proximity of the articles was to show a so-called link between Arutz 7 radio religious right-wing policy and the two murderers (also religious right-wing activists).