This decision is considered an Israeli milestone on the collision between television ratings and national responsibility, as well as with the issue of dealing with terror.
Given the propensity of suicide attacks during this period (following the Second Intifada), the situation was fairly common, and normally handled by "handing off" broadcast to the Channel 2 News company.
This continued for ten minutes, until the decision was made to end the broadcast of the game entirely, at which point the news report was scaled back to full-screen size.
In response, the Second Israeli Broadcasting Authority decided to "condemn poignantly this unacceptable behavior of Telad and its director, Uzi Peled, in the critical moments of the bloody suicide attack in Jerusalem".
Moreover, it decided to take extreme punitive measures, and added that this decision followed previous events in which Telad refused to interrupt broadcasting football in order to report about terrorist acts.