PM Netanyahu Meets with Students from the Ayalim Association

(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, this evening (Thursday, 27 December
2012), in the Old City of Be'er Sheva, met with students from the Ayalim
http://ayalim.org.il/en/
association. At the start of the meeting, the Prime Minister referred to a
statistic published today according to which for the first time since 2006
not a single illegal work infiltrator entered Israel from Egypt in the past
week:

"The flood of infiltrators, which began in 2005, increased and increased.
From dozens, we reached a situation in which there were thousands of
infiltrators a month; in the end, there would have been hundreds of
thousands of illegal work infiltrators here. In order to ensure that we
would control the southern border, I decided that we would build a fence
from the Gaza Strip to Eilat. This month, the number of infiltrators who
crossed the border and reached Israel's cities declined to zero."