Israeli cabinet ratifies Tarif as a minister in the new government

During its weekly session held on Sunday, the israeli cabinet approved assigning " the minister at large" Saleh tarif as a chairman for the ministerial committee in charge of the affairs of the Arabs of 1948 territories in the occupied Palestinian territories, according to the Israeli radio on Sunday.

The radio said that the committee will work to solve what it called the "problems of those Palestinians."

Meantime, the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, during the meeting, called on the Palestinian authority to agree on the meeting of the joint Israeli- Palestinian higher security committee in order to resume joint security coordination.