Sharon met Yesha Council leaders, including spokesman Yehoshua Mor-Yosef, in the Knesset yesterday. Mor-Yosef recounted what happened:
\"Sharon repeated over several times that the present security situation cannot continue - we could see that this was a very burning issue for him. But we expressed our skepticism to him, because if the Defense Minister is Ehud Barak, then he [Sharon] may not be able to implement the strong policies that he favors. The same with the Yesha communities - Sharon, who is responsible for much of the construction and many of the towns here in the past decades, is very interested and sympathetic to us, and talked with longing about the hilltops, etc. He wanted to know why this spot hasn\'t been built up, and what about that spot - but again, we explained that in the end, the Defense Minister - who is responsible for everything in Yesha because of the military government there - will be able to stop things. Sharon thinks that he will be able to control things; he\'s not naive, and he knows that it will not be simple, but he feels that the way will be found to build there. It won\'t be easy for us, we will have to work hard, but I think we can assume that there will be at least as much construction as there was under the previous government - which was not a small amount.\"
\"Sharon repeated over several times that the present security situation cannot continue - we could see that this was a very burning issue for him. But we expressed our skepticism to him, because if the Defense Minister is Ehud Barak, then he [Sharon] may not be able to implement the strong policies that he favors. The same with the Yesha communities - Sharon, who is responsible for much of the construction and many of the towns here in the past decades, is very interested and sympathetic to us, and talked with longing about the hilltops, etc. He wanted to know why this spot hasn\'t been built up, and what about that spot - but again, we explained that in the end, the Defense Minister - who is responsible for everything in Yesha because of the military government there - will be able to stop things. Sharon thinks that he will be able to control things; he\'s not naive, and he knows that it will not be simple, but he feels that the way will be found to build there. It won\'t be easy for us, we will have to work hard, but I think we can assume that there will be at least as much construction as there was under the previous government - which was not a small amount.\"