Coalition Chairman Ze'ev Elkin said Thursday that the media missed the point in its coverage of Wednesday's vote by the Knesset Finance Committee to authorize a budget supplement for building inspectors for the Civil Administration for Judea and Samaria.
Interviewed by Arutz Sheva's Hebrew service, Elkin, who also serves as chairman of the Land of Israel lobby, said the committee only approved funding for the inspectors to carry out surveys of unauthorized communities with an eye to gaining authorization for them. He added that the committee was compensating for action taken by former defense minister Amir Peretz against such surveys.