SECURITY CABINET APPROVES COMPLETION OF BARRIER AROUND JERUSALEM:

The security cabinet late Thurs. night, 10 March 2016, approved the immediate renewal of construction work on the security barrier around the area of Jerusalem, in an effort to halt Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis. It was one of a series of measures the cabinet took just hours after USA Vice President Joe Biden flew out of Ben-Gurion Airport for Jordan. The security barrier has been largely frozen since 2007. Only some 470 km. of its 790-km. route has been erected. It has yet to be built around the Gush Etzion, Ariel and Ma’aleh Adumim settlement blocs. There are also gaps in the barrier around Jerusalem that need to be completed. The USA has opposed construction of the barrier in Judea & Samaria, but while Biden was here opposition leader Issac Herzog spoke with the vice president about the need to finish it. "Only separation will stop terrorism. If we do not separate from the Palestinians, the Jews will continue to be killed here,” he told Biden. (J. Post)