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Suspects caught with crowbars, wirecutters allegedly en route to holy site due to apparent opposition to new safety measures following last year's deadly disaster
Every family to be indemnified for each deceased member; bereaved families' forum thanks ministers for acting in 'rare cooperation' between coalition and opposition
The newly appointed members of the Meron disaster commission: Commission chair and former chief justice Miriam Naor, right, former Bnei Brak mayor Rabbi Mordechai Karelitz, left, former IDF planning chief Maj. Gen. (res.) Shlomo Yanai, 2nd left, and sitting Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut, 2nd right, who chose the commission members, on June 27, 2021. (Courtesy, Courts Authority) The government’s taskforce probing the April 30 disaster at Mount Meron, which left 45 people dead and over 150 wounded, will be led by former chief justice Miriam Naor, it was announced on Sunday. The thr...
Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett addresses the Knesset on June 13, 2021 (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset) In a speech constantly interrupted by soon-to-be opposition lawmakers, Prime Minister-designate Naftali Bennett presented his new “reasonable and responsible” government Sunday afternoon at its swearing-in ceremony at the Knesset, pledging that it would “end a terrible period of hatred among the people of Israel.” Struggling to speak over the shouts of Knesset members from Likud, Religious Zionism and the ultra-Orthodox parties, Bennett said that his government of right-wing, left-...
As ultra-Orthodox political leaders resist an independent investigation of Israel's worst civil disaster, fearing they'll be blamed, anger is rising within the community