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

The Cabinet today (Sunday, 17 June 2012), approved the establishment of the
Ministerial Committee on Settlement Affairs to be chaired by Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu
http://www.pmo.gov.il/PMOEng/Communication/Spokesman/2012/06/spokeishur140612.htm

Vice Premier Shaul Mofaz, Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Industry, Trade and
Labor Minister Shalom Simhon and Minister Michael Eitan opposed the
decision. Vice Premier and Negev and Galilee Development Minister Silvan
Shalom, Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch, Energy and Water
Resources Minister Uzi Landau, Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver
and Tourism Minister Stas Misezhnikov abstained.