Posted on 03/15/22
| News Source: Arutz-7
Defense Minister Benny Gantz toured Ben Gurion Airport Tuesday together with Immigration and Absorption Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata, National Emergency Authority (NEMA) Director Brigadier General (Res.) Yoram Laredo, and Head of the National Mission for Immigrant Absorption from Ukraine and Russia, Meir Spiegler.
Prior to this, the Defense Minister held a discussion regarding the efforts of the defense establishment with the participation of Operations Division head Maj. Gen. Oded Basiuk, and Deputy Director General of the Defense Ministry Avi Dadon.
During the tour, the arrival route at Ben Gurion Airport was presented, a dialogue was held with the soldiers who assist in the absorption of the immigrants and in interviews with them, as well as an assessment of the situation at the "Olim Habaita" operation operated by NEMA.
Minister Gantz said that "the circumstances of the people coming here are difficult circumstances. The State of Israel has always been their home, and now they are realizing their return home and we are happy that we can help. The defense establishment will do everything possible to help together with the Immigrant and Absorption Ministry and with other ministries, and the operation headed by Meir Spiegler."
"Ultimately, it is a great challenge for all Israeli government ministries to be able to absorb everyone who comes here, and we are very happy for this privilege given to us to do so. It is a first-rate Zionist act. That is exactly why the State of Israel, the home of the Jewish people, exists," he added.
Ganz recounted, "We met a soldier here at the border, whose mother came with his sister, and we're heard here of more moving stories. This is the nature of this phenomenon. We have to do everything possible to absorb them in the best possible way."