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Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster
Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster
“It is our fundamental duty to examine every aspect of the Meron disaster,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells a special Knesset session.
By Yair Altman and Itsik Saban
An Orthodox Jewish man visits Mount Meron in northern Israel, where 45 Israelis lost their lives during a stampede at a Lag B Omer celebration, May 3, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
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(May 4, 2021 / Israel Hayom) Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Monday that there is no legal impediment to establishing a state commission of inquiry into the Lag B’Omer disaster, not even in the case of a provisional government.
(JTA) Israel’s state comptroller has launched an inquiry into the stampede at Mount Meron on Lag b’Omer that killed 45 celebrants, citing prior warnings from his office that the site was unsafe for mass use.
“We must now examine and see how this incident should have been prevented,” Haaretz quoted Matanyahu Englman as saying on Monday.
Englman also said he would explore assigning personal liability for the tragedy.
He noted that reports by one of his predecessors in 2008 and 2011 found that structural changes to the site in northern Israel were made without oversight. Tens of thousands of Jews, most of them haredi Orthodox, gather at the site each year to commemorate the death of second-century Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, whose tomb is believed to be at the site.
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