When confronted by Galei Tzahal (Army Radio) host Razi Barkai on Tuesday morning, Housing Minister (Kadima) Ze’ev Boim admitted that the delays in building fortified rooms for southern residents are in no small way due to his colleague, Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit.

Boim explained that “according to the book” a local interior committee examines each application, and the review process, one at a time, taking a considerable amount of time. He suggests bypassing the local process and beginning to build as quickly as possible, but Sheetrit’s office remains determined to ‘work by the book,’ which in essence is at the expense of southern residents who in many cases do not have adequate protection against rocket attacks.

Concluding the interview, Boim commented that the true solution to the Kassams and Katyushas is not fortified rooms, but by eliminating the attacks.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)