  We construct a supersymmetric version of the Standard Model which contains a
long-lived metastable vacuum. In this vacuum supersymmetry is broken and the
electroweak symmetry is Higgsed, and we identify it with the physical ground
state of the Standard Model. In our approach the metastable supersymmetry
breaking (MSB) occurs directly in the SU(2)_L x U(1)_Y sector of the Standard
Model; it does not require a separate MSB sector and in this way it departs
from the usual lore. There is a direct link between the electroweak symmetry
breaking and the supersymmetry breaking in our model, both effects are induced
by the same Higgs fields. In order to generate sufficiently large gluino masses
we have to have strong coupling in the Higgs sector, h >> 1. Our model results
in an extremely compact low-energy effective theory at the electroweak scale
with Higgs fields being very heavy, M_{Higgs} >> M_W and frozen at their vacuum
expectation values.
