Ministerial committee for improving Palestinians' situation convenes
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said during the first discussion of a ministerial committee for the improvement of Palestinians' situation in the West Bank that "the committee will be presented with a series of projects and will advance every project in order to ease the Palestinians' lives. I am determined to remove the barriers and promote the projects.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak presented economic initiatives and said that there were 100 joint projects with the Palestinian Authority. (Roni Sofer)