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)