Getting under the stretcher: Defense Minister Bnei Gantz today (Friday) cut a situation regarding the defense establishment's assistance to the effort led by the Ministry of Absorption and immigration in bringing immigrants, under the established directorate, as well as support for the Interior Ministry's effort in absorbing refugees and all arriving from Ukraine.
Defense Minister Gantz addressed the challenge and efforts of the defense establishment to assist.
"The operational assumption is that we face a significant national challenge, along with the security challenges we operate in and remain in force, and alongside the ongoing corona effort. The defense establishment and the IDF will provide any operational assistance needed - and any solution that can be helped. This is especially in the first weeks, until the system stabilizes. All this in coordination and under the directive of the Absorption and Aliyah Cabinet headed by Minister Pnina Temano Sheta, and the procedures set in the absorption and interior ministries. The IDF and the entire system will assist in missions Related to the procedures for recognizing those who come. "
Also, in a statement issued by the Ministry of Defense, the decisions on which they were able to reach agreements were detailed:
- The head of Rachel, will coordinate all the system's efforts with government ministries.
- The IDF will assist about 50 soldiers, some of whom speak Ukrainian or Russian, to assist in the routing of those arriving at Ben Gurion Airport.
- The staff of Alon's headquarters and the reservists of Rachel will increase and assist in the operation of the Knesset established at Ben Gurion Airport.
- The IDF will assist about 40 Ukrainian-speaking soldiers in assisting the Jewish Agency in the call centers that serve those who arrive in Israel or who wish to arrive.
Dozens of places will currently be reserved at the Dan Panorama Hotel for the purpose of evacuating those refusing entry or waiting for answers, and assistance will be provided to the Ministry of the Interior in accordance with requests and the need to make additional accommodations with Corona hotels.
- The IDF is preparing to operate a system of Hebrew studies for immigrants through female teachers as needed.
- The defense system will examine the possibility of absorbing workers from among the immigrants in front of the defense industries.
At the end of the situation, the Minister of Defense emphasized that full coordination should be established with the head of the Directorate of Absorption, Meir Spiegler, and the Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, and all government ministries requesting assistance.
In the first stage, an immediate response must be given, when later, after the system has stabilized, its transfer to the competent authorities will be examined.
It should be noted that the meeting was attended by the Deputy Chief of Staff, General Herzli Halevi, the Commander of the Home Front Command, Major General Uri Gordin, the head of the Operations Division, Major General Oded Basiuk, the head of the National Emergency Authority, Brigadier General Yoram Lardo, Headquarters coordinated in the IDF in cooperation with Rosh Rachel and a tour that took place this morning at Ben Gurion Airport.
At the same time, Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked today referred in a Facebook post to some of the events on the government's agenda and in particular to the crisis created following the war in Ukraine.
"The war in Ukraine is hard and painful. Every heartbreaking sight evokes associations on a personal and family level. Every person is in the right place, feels empathy for those whose lives have been interrupted by hostility. Europe mobilized for the people of Ukraine and many countries opened their gates. "He is staying in Ukraine, but in one of the European countries to which Ness lives. In Ukraine there are tens of millions of inhabitants, and the burden of aid to the abandoning masses is scattered among the various countries. Our place is not absent either," wrote Minister Shaked.
"The Prime Minister has undertaken a complex mediation task that is too early to know what will happen in the end," the interior minister stressed, adding that the State of Israel currently hosts more than 25,000 Ukrainians, and contrary to criticism, the vast majority of those who arrived were allowed to enter and stay here until the rage passed. .
The Minister of the Interior referred to Israel's role in assisting Ukrainian citizens and wrote that "in recent days, pictures of congestion and congestion have been published at Ben Gurion Airport.
These pictures did not pass me by.
I laid down all the relevant factors to address the issue immediately and so it was.
At Ben Gurion Airport, a person was stationed on behalf of the Population and Immigration Authority whose entire purpose will be to take care of the well-being of Ukrainian citizens landing in Israel. in the best way".
Minister Shaked also spoke about the assistance provided by the defense establishment and said that "Home Front Command personnel mobilized to help manage and care for the waiting and for that I thank Defense Minister Bnei Gantz. It is our duty to explain to everyone and provide a warm and pleasant welcome.
Along with the hospitality we received, we are expected to receive one hundred thousand returnees in Israel.
"Overall, the State of Israel is expected to face a challenge of a magnitude that no country in the world is expected to experience. As history has shown, we can meet the important historical challenge."
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