Deputy Minister of Education R’ Meir Porush called the announced decision to freeze construction throughout Yehuda and Shomron a “miserable” one. He was responding to a statement made earlier on Wednesday by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that he will be moving ahead with his plan, but it will not include construction to accommodate “natural growth” in Yehuda and Shomron, which is ambiguous at best, and it will not include construction in Yerushalayim.

Elected on a right-wing platform, Netanyahu has in his second term angered voters as was the case a decade ago, during his first term, when he handed Chevron over to the PA (Palestinian Authority) in compliance with the Oslo Accord.

Porush stated such a move is “extremely serious and it mustn’t be actualized”.

(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)