Trade Minister Eli Yishai and three Shas MKs were stuck Thursday for 45 minutes in an elevator that fell three stories in a Tel Aviv office building.

Yishai, whose office is responsible, among other things, for security and inspection of elevators in Israel, ordered a probe of the malfunction. He is expected to receive the preliminary findings as early as Thursday night.

The building where Yishai and MKs Nissim Ze'ev, David Azoulay and Ya'akov Margi were stuck houses the Tel Aviv branches of Trade Ministry offices. The lawmakers were in the building meeting with authority heads.

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While they were stuck in the elevator, MK Ze'ev fell ill and fainted.

Firefighters, police and an ambulance arrived at the scene and removed the lawmakers from the elevator after 45 minutes. In the end, nobody present was injured.