Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer expressed his deep sorrow about the terrible catastrophe that has befallen the Hershkovitz family. He said that he is determined to continue a non-yielding war against terrorism, but \"we will concentrate only on the terrorists and those who send them.\" He said that the distinction that the government is making between the terrorists and the population that does not take part in the warfare is designed to prevent a \"broadening of the circle of violence.\" Binyamin Regional Council head Pinchas Wallerstein, a resident of Ofrah, said that in order to preserve Jewish lives, \"there is nothing wrong, for instance, with declaring that no one may walk within 100 meters of roads travelled by Israelis.\" He said that Israel must cause the Palestinians to realize that time is working against them, by building more and more homes in Yesha in response to every terrorist attack.