Special Team on Dealing with the Needs of the Residents and Communities that
were Affected by Operation Pillar of Defense Holds its First Meeting
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister's Office Director-General Harel Locker, this evening
(Thursday, 22 November 2012), convened the first discussion of the
Government team, which he heads, on ensuring quick treatment of the needs of
residents and communities after Operation Pillar of Defense
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The director-generals of the Finance, Home Front Defense, Tourism, Social
Welfare and Social Services, Negev and Galilee, Education, Agriculture,
Interior, and Industry, Trade and Labor ministries discussed the situation
in the communities in the south and their ministries' activities in the
field.

PMO Dir.-Gen. Locker commended the functioning of Government ministries
regarding civilian needs and the home front during the Operation, and
instructed the director-generals to continue showing the same level of
service and generosity toward the residents and communities of the south
that they showed during the operation.

The team will meet again this coming Tuesday (27 November).

Before the start of the discussion, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke
with PMO Dir.-Gen. Locker and asked him to work to shorten the bureaucracy
in order to make things easier for the residents who were affected.