Member of Knesset Motti Yogev (Jewish Home) will meet soon with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and is expected to discuss a series of issues with him, among them Hevron, including the renewal of the mandate of the nearly 25-year-old Temporary International Presence in Hevron, the roofing and accessibility of the Cave of the Patriarchs and the strengthening of Jewish settlement in the city of the patriarchs.
Created in the wake of the killing of 29 Arabs by Baruch Goldstein in February 1994, TIPH's mandate comes up for renewal in January. Representatives of the Foreign Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office were absent, last week from a meeting of the Subcommittee on Judea and Samaria concerning TIPH, and representatives of the Defense Ministry who were present at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee did not know how to answer questions regarding the responsibility and the date of the renewal of the TIPH mandate.