Sunday, May 30, 2021

Forty-five people died at Meron. Why are Haredi parties blocking a probe?

 https://www.timesofisrael.com/bid-to-block-meron-disaster-inquiry-sparks-first-glimmers-of-a-haredi-rebellion/

 Sunday marks 30 days since the disaster at Mount Meron in which 45 people were killed and 102 wounded as thousands tried to squeeze through a narrow staircase at the annual Lag B’Omer festival.

It was the worst civilian disaster in Israel’s history. Yet 30 days on, as the traditional shloshim mourning period draws to a close, all attempts to establish a formal state investigation into what went wrong have failed.

Perhaps most shocking of all: Though the dead are almost all Haredi, it is the Haredi political parties who have resisted most fiercely a formal probe.

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