Prime Minister Naftali Bennett reprimanded representatives of the Jewish Agency today (Monday) during a meeting of the Ministerial Committee on Immigration and Absorption, headed by Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata.
During the meeting, Bennett dialed the Jewish Agency's emergency center in Kiryat Moriah in Jerusalem and handed the phone to Minister Ze'ev Elkin to see if he could reach someone who would take his call in Ukrainian.
After an automatic answer was heard in English, another five minutes passed before the message came on again, asking the caller to leave their number.
Bennett banged on the table and turned to agency representatives: "There is no excuse for this. It takes the refrigerator company half a minute to answer their customers. You tell me everything is fine but no one picked up my call. I want the staff increased by three or four times its present size by 6 PM today."
The acting chairman of the Jewish Agency, Yaakov Hagoel, told Bennett that the matter would be addressed.