MKs Yigal Guetta (Shas) and Bezalel Smotrich (Jewish Home) on Saturday night blasted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's announcement that construction of 42 housing units in Kiryat Arba was approved in response to Thursday's attack in which Hallel Yaffa Ariel was murdered.

The reason for the criticism is that the planned housing is actually an old tender that was frozen for political reasons, and Netanyahu has now approved it and republished it.


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