Cabinet Communique
(Communicated by the Prime Minister's Media Adviser)

At the weekly Cabinet meeting yesterday (Sunday, 28 December 2014):

1. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made the following remarks:

"In recent weeks we have seen a stepped-up Iranian effort to intensify
terrorist actions in Judea and Samaria. None other than the Palestinian
Authority ambassador in Teheran said that he was enthused by Iranian ruler
Khamenei's instructions to send weapons to the West Bank and he added, and I
quote, 'The Zionist regime is an aggressive cancerous growth which, sooner
or later, must be eliminated.' Now I emphasize, it was not a Hamas man who
said this, it was the Palestinian Authority ambassador in Teheran. Now what
is the UN doing in response? Instead of dealing with this incitement they
are giving it an honored place, the same incitement that has led to the
recent terrorist attack, and they are also moving forward on a unilateral
Palestinian proposal to try and pass a decision in the Security Council, the
purpose of which is to bring about a forced settlement that would establish
here a second Hamastan and would endanger our security.

This is the same UN the Human Rights Council of which passed dozens of
decisions this year against Israel, one decision on Iran and one decision on
Syria. We will continue to insist on our truth and we will also continue to
vigorously rebuff attempts to force terms on us that would endanger our
security and our future. We expect national unity on this national issue."

2. The Cabinet decided to establish a national center in the Finance
Ministry (in the Israel Tax Authority) to assist in the examination of cargo
and freight with at-risk characteristics as part of the struggle against the
smuggling of war materiel, terrorism financing, money laundering and drug
smuggling.

3. Tourism Minister Uzi Landau briefed the cabinet on the activity of his
ministry ahead of 2015.

Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed Prime Minister's Office director General
Harel Locker to work with the other relevant ministries in order to increase
the number of tourists entering Israel by cancelling the need for entry
visas from certain countries, with emphasis on tourists from China, India
and Latin America.

4. The Cabinet approved a Ministry of Environmental Protection plan for
rehabilitating the Arava region in the wake of the recent oil spill.
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