Cabinet Minister Yuval Steinitz is a former chairman of the committee.
VOA: standard.2009.12.28
"We were caught by surprise, " said Israeli Finance Minister YuvalSteinitz, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal in New York, a few hours before Mr. Mubarak's announcement.
However, Israeli Finance Minister YuvalSteinitz warned last month that if the Palestinians went ahead with the UN bid Israel would "not collect taxes for them and we will not transfer their revenues".