Commerce Minister Haim Barley declared here Tuesday that whatever the political settlement ultimately reached. “Israel and Judea and Samaria will be part of the same economic unit.” Speaking at the opening of a modern new bakery at Beit Jalla, a village near Bethlehem, he said that people, goods and capital would move freely to and from Israel and the West Bank.
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