Chairman Yossi Dagan of the Samaria Regional Council has welcomed the elimination of terrorist who lead the cell that murdered Rabbi Raziel Shevach, saying, "The real answer to terrorism is the reduction of its motivation by a reverberating settlement step, and I call on the prime minister to announce, this morning, the establishment of a new Jewish community in Samaria, next to the site of the attack and to announce a building boom in the community where the murdered man [from yesterday -ed] lived in Har Bracha."