At a meeting of Likud ministers Sunday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu questioned why schools which had been approved for the town of Itamar in Samaria were not being built.Construction for the institutions have been approved by all agencies involved, but ground has not been broken yet, Netanyahu was told at the meeting. He instructed government minister Benny Begin and government secretary Zvi Hauser to find out why.
At the meeting, Likud faction head Ze'ev Elkin said that the holdup was apparently at the Defense Ministry, which had withheld final approval. Elkin said that the holdup was due to a “useless bureaucratic mixup” that he hoped would be cleared up soon.