Cabinet to be Asked to Approve Establishment of Ministerial Committee on
Settlement Affairs to be Chaired by PM Netanyahu
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

The Cabinet will, on Sunday, 17 June 2012, be asked to approve the
establishment of the Ministerial Committee on Settlement Affairs to be
chaired by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Committee will have authority to formulate Government policy regarding
unregulated construction on state and private lands, including the main
issues that have reached the courts. Committee decisions will have the
status of Cabinet decisions and ministers will be unable to appeal them.

In addition to Prime Minister Netanyahu (Chairman), Defense Minister Ehud
Barak, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, Science and Technology Minister
Daniel Hershkowitz, Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz, Interior Minister Eli Yishai,
Strategic Affairs Minister Moshe Yaalon, Minister Zeev Binyamin Begin,
Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, Education
Minister Gideon Saar and Environmental Protection Minister Gilad Erdan will
also be members of the Committee.