JERUSSALEM. July 6: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will decide whether to pull Israeli troops out of the West Bank town ol Hebron after his return from the United States, her Interior se cuyity minister said Friday.

Avigdor Kahalani said the matter would be discussed by the Israeli Cabinet on Ne tanyahu's return next week

Netanyahu is due to go lo Washington on Monday, his first foreign trip since his May 29 election victory

Hebron, where 400 militant Jewish settler live among 120.000 Palestinians . is the only major West Bank town still under Israeli occupation.

Under the Israeli Palestinian autonomy agreements the Jewish state was to pull Its troops out of four fifths of the town bv March 28 but former Prime Minister Shimon Peres postponed the pullback after a wave of Islamic suicide bombings in Israel.

Palestinian activists distributed of leaflets last week calling on Arabs to make next Tuesday the start of a hew Infi-fada II Netanyahu dqes np| take a decision beforehand

The Israeli leader is-meetings t!S President Bill Clinton in Washington the same day.