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Criminal Investigation 4000, which lies at the heart of the criminal indictment against former Prime Minister Netanyahu, reflects a wide and deep problem that pertains to the relationship between media outlets, public officials and business owners: the utilization of media outlets by business owners in order to influence public officials to promote their other businesses. This article offers a novel structural solution that addresses the problem at its root: separating the control of a media outlet from the control of other significant businesses, similarly to the structural separation between the control of financial businesses and real-economy businesses that was adopted in the Act for Encouraging Competition and Reducing Centralization, 2013.The article presents the advantages of the structural separation in comparison to one of the central alternatives for addressing the problem—imposition of criminal liability for bribery – and confronts the possible disadvantages of the structural separation mechanism.