Public Security Minister Avi Dichter said Tuesday that Israel needs to choose between the different fences that it wants to build to protect itself from Arab terrorists, because they can't all be built at once.
Dichter, who visited the southern town of Dimona following the suicide attack there Monday, was asked when the fence separating the Hevron area from the Beersheva region would be completed. "This is an old dilemma," he said. "In the end there will be a fence, but we need to decide first if we seal off the openings in the Hevron area, or complete the fence around greater Jerusalem, or build a fence on the border with Egypt."
"The dilemmas are difficult, and the State of Israel cannot do everything at the same time," Dichter explained.
Dichter also commended policeman Supt. Kobi Mor, who shot and killed the second suicide terrorist in the Dimona attack before he could detonate his explosive vest. Mor's action was documented on video by a local wedding video photographer.
Israeli TV reports Tuesday showed stretches of the area between southern Judea and the Negev desert where there is no security fence, and where Arabs can cross into southern Israel with ease. The infiltration is usually carried out with the complicity of Israeli Arabs, who wait for the infiltrators in their cars, checking all the while that that security forces are not nearby. The Israeli drivers transport the infiltrators into Israel, for a fee.
Construction of the security fence around PA-controlled areas began in 2002 and hit a major hitch in 30 June 2004, after Israel's Supreme Court ruled that a "better balance between security and humanitarian considerations" needed to be struck. This decision was followed by "an intensive reassessment of the route," according to the Ministry of Defense's website.
Two pairs of terrorists
The police and IDF spokesmen would not confirm reports that the terrorists in Dimona came from Hevron. Nor would they comment on reports that two sets of terrorists were operating on Monday, one pair which left from Hevron, and another pair which tried to infiltrate from Gaza. According to reports, one pair of terrorists was killed before reaching its destination, and the other pair struck in Dimona.
Victim laid to rest
Dr. Lyubov Razdolskaya, 73, who was murdered in the Dimona attack, was laid to rest Tuesday afternoon, after her body was identified with the aid of DNA samples from her two sons. Her husband, Edward Gedelin, is in critical condition at Soroka hospital. He is under anesthesia and being artificially respirated. 
The confusion was caused by the fact that two pairs of terrorists had operated independently on the same day.
The couple had been employed at the physics department of Ben Gurion University for the past ten years. Their son, Michael Gedelin, is a professor in the department. He said that his parents had been on their way to the bank when the bomb went off.
Defense Minister Ehud Barak promised Tuesday to "provide solutions to terror from Hevron and to Kassams from Gaza."
"Today Kassam rockets were once again fired at Sderot, and yesterday there was a terror attack in Dimona," Barak told cadets Tuesday at an officers' course in Shizafon Base in the Negev desert. "We will provide the solutions, just as your parents came up with solutions in the past, when they were fighting in the Jordan Valley."