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Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit
Israel Police have begun to collect testimonies from the survivors of the disaster that took place Thursday night on Lag BâOmer at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron.
However, police officers will not be interviewing other police officers; Israel Police requested that an outside agency investigate the issue of whether police had any responsibility for the tragedy.
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At least 45 people were killed and 150 more injured in what appears to have been a stampede as participants were leaving a bonfire at the site of the Toldos Aharon Hassidic group. ....
/I could be one of the dead, says Brazilian man who escaped tragedy at religious event in Israel – 5/2/2021 – World I could be one of the dead, says Brazilian man who escaped tragedy at religious event in Israel – 5/2/2021 – World ksuadminMay 2, 2021 685 Widespread chaos, panic, screaming, running, ambulances with wounded and lifeless bodies, old people stumbling trying to escape, children crying in search of their parents, sirens of police cars and helicopters. The sights and sounds are ingrained in the mind of Carioca Daniel Rabinovitsch, 21, who was on Mount Meron in Galilee, northern Israel, when 45 people were trampled to death during a religious holiday that brought together 100,000 people. faithful Friday morning (30) in Israel, Thursday evening (29) in Brazil. ....
Former police chiefs Moshe Karadi (right) and Shlomo Aharonishki. (Yossi Zamir / Flash90) Former police commissioner Shlomo Aharonishki joins calls for a state commission of inquiry into the Meron disaster. Another ex-commissioner, Moshe Karadi, issued the same demand on Friday night. Speaking on Channel 12 news, Aharonishki, who helmed the force from 2001-4, reinforces characterizations of the Mt. Meron facility around the burial site of the 2nd Century sage Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai as a kind of extraterritorial facility where ultra-Orthodox organizers have ultimate control. “The police are not in charge of safety” at Meron, Aharonishki says, speaking in the wake of the disaster overnight Thursday-Friday in which 45 people were crushed to death in a packed, narrow, sloping walkway, with a slippery metal floor, along the exit route from the site during Lag B’Omer festivities. ....
3 shares Illustrative: Leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish chassidic dynasty of Toldot Avraham visits Meron, Northern Israel, on May 25, 2020. (David Cohen/FLASH90) The deadly stampede in which 45 ultra-Orthodox pilgrims were crushed to death at Mount Meron on Thursday night was not the first safety-related disaster to occur there during Lag B’Omer celebrations. Exactly 110 years ago, 11 people were killed, and more than 40 were wounded, when a balcony railing collapsed at the holy site. On May 15, 1911, Lag B’Omer night, at the gravesite of the second-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, at least 100 people fell some seven meters from a balcony after the railing surrounding it collapsed. ....
“I am responsible, but responsibility does not mean blame,” he said. “The disaster that happened this year could have happened any other year,” Ohana said, noting that in fact the number of revelers at the holy site was far lower this year than in previous years. He said the scope of the tragedy went “far beyond the police.” Ohana also gave full backing to the police, saying that “the whole chain of command did its job” ahead of and during the incident, including the police chief and district commander. The minister added that he had visited the wounded over the weekend and spoken to relatives of victims, and described the pain of hearing their stories. ....