Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz and Housing Minister Ariel Atias placed their signatures Tuesday on the document appointing Baruch-Tzvi (Bentzi) Lieberman as the head of the Israel Lands Authority.

Lieberman was head of the Samaria Regional Council from 1997 to 2007. He was also the head of the governmental Tenufa Administration that assisted families expelled from Gush Katif.