At a court hearing in the court, Bnei Zion's attorney claimed that the prosecution discriminated against his client • Parents: "Trying to attract time"

• Yuval Cahan, director of Bnei Zion prepares for the disaster // Photo: Dudu Grinshpan

Zafit River disaster: At the end of a particularly charged hearing in Be'er Sheva District Court on Monday, as part of the indictment filed against Yuval Cahan, director of the Bnei Zion Pre-Military Preparatory and Guide Spring Berdichev, families of victims of the disaster claim: "The defendants are trying to evade From responsibility, there is a sense that trying to apply time "

The hearing, which was supposed to be essentially procedural and to include the defendants' answers to an indictment filed against them, was absent from the preparatory director, Yuval Kahan. Cahan was at the head of the Bnei Zion preparations while the Tzfit River disaster occurred two years ago, during which nine girls and a boy were hiking in the Tzfat stream on behalf of the preparer after a flood hit the area two years ago during a flood that occurred in the area.

The guide Spring Berdichev, today in discussion // Photo: Dudu Grinshpan

The defendant's attorney, Uri Corb, argued in the hearing that the prosecution had harmed discrimination against his client, and that he had been charged with the same offense of manslaughter contrary to the prosecution's policy in similar cases. He also presented preliminary allegations that he had fallen victim to the indictment - And so Cahan's right is the claim of "protection from justice."

Advocate Corb argued in the hearing that the defendant "carries and carries with him all his life a sense of internal responsibility and conscience to the terrible disaster." He further added that once the flood forecast became known, his client repeatedly instructed the preparatory staff to avoid a flood event. Nahal Tzafit was chosen without the knowledge of the preparatory director.

It should be noted that the indictment claims the opposite of Kahan and his attorney, who also claimed that the indictment sought to wreak "speculative speculation whose role is undermining the defendant's face."

Dorit Barhum, who lost her daughter Maayan in the disaster, said after the hearing: "My feeling is hard, from the preparatory director's attempt to renounce his responsibility for the disaster. It brought me back to kindergarten, the section of who will speak first and more loudly. The feeling for the parents of the boys who died is trying "But we are determined, it will not exhaust us. In every discussion we will be here, and we will smile and shout our cry."

Ofer Cohen The father of Rumi Cohen, a 17.5-year-old gel killed in the Tzafit disaster in the court today // Photo: Dudu Grinshpan

Sarit Orr, who lost her daughter Ella, said: "Me and the other parents are in an easy situation. It is not easy for us. It is very difficult for us. The attorneys make legal claims just to pull time."

The indictment against Cahan and Berdichev attributes them to the perpetrators of the dead easily and causing serious injury, due to the responsibility for the deaths of ten preparatory students and candidates to study, and the injury of two of them, in the April 2018 disaster in Nahal Tzafit.

According to the indictment, despite the obvious and imminent danger of the flood known to the defendants, and despite repeated warnings that they had been informed prior to the trip and during which experts on the danger of the rains and floods in the trip area, the defendants did not cancel the planned trip in the area and did not prevent the campers from entering, Into its narrow part.

"In their prohibited acts and omissions, the defendants caused the deaths of ten members of the group and the serious injury of the two candidates to recruit, with ease, when they take an unreasonable risk of causing the aforementioned harsh results, hoping to succeed," the indictment states.

In the end, Judge Elijah Pavilion decided to postpone the hearing, after defense attorneys claimed they had not received all of the investigation material.