Hapeles was founded through the encouragement of Shmuel Auerbach, leader of the Jerusalem Faction, an Israeli-Haredi political organisation.

Yated Ne'eman was part of a broad initiative to create communal organizations to serve the Lithuanian Torah community.

The CEO, the editor-in-chief and some of its guiding rabbinical board members (the "spiritual committee"), who were considered to represent the more strict ideological line, were fired during the changes.

[3] Jerusalem Faction protests against Haredi enlistment subsided for a few months as a result of the arrests, but Israeli Chief of Police Roni Alsheikh asserted that this was an unintended, though welcome, development.

[4] However, the newspaper claimed that the charges against it were indeed a government persecution to silence its draft opposition campaign, citing controversial quotations of Eli Ben-Dahan, Israel's deputy minister of defence, as proof.