Shimon Israel Elhadad lost his two brothers, the late Moshe Mordechai, 12, and the late Yosef David, 18, in the disaster in Meron. "The feelings are hard. After the disaster.
"The feeling is that the world continues to travel, and we are left behind with this space. There are flashbacks that are constantly rising, situations that are rising, which increasingly express the lack and the space. Coping is not easy," he says.
"Pouring the baby with the water", Shimon Israel Elhadad,
Exactly one week remains until Lag B'Omer, and the final preparations for the first event after the Meron disaster are completed on the mountain. 45 men, boys and children were killed in the heaviest civil disaster in the history of the State of Israel. And on Thursday for the festivities and memorial event that will take place afterwards, some prefer to stay away from the area where the disaster occurred.
An event with more than 100 survivors of the disaster will be held today at the Nation's Buildings in Jerusalem, as part of a large commemorative campaign launched to establish a permanent memorial site for those who perished in Meron.
"Unfortunately, the people of Israel are learning trouble, even though this event is one that we have not seen for generations," says Elhadad. "Of every deceased person and profile of his life. That even in ten years they will remember the disaster, and that it will not disappear into the abyss of oblivion.
The late Yosef David Elhadad,
Along with dealing with the heavy disaster, the families have been waiting for a year for the decisions of the State Commission of Inquiry, and see with their own eyes how the officials, most of them, remained in office and were not dismissed.
"Of course it's annoying, but unfortunately this is how things are conducted in the State of Israel," says Elhadad pessimistically. "A week or two, and then it's all over. A world as it used to be."
63 illegal buildings destined for evacuation until the revelry were demolished, strict regulations against violators of the directives were approved in the Knesset, and it seems that all the technical parts are in place on the way to an event that last year hardly interested the Israeli public - and this time will receive tremendous attention.
If something does not work properly, if one person is injured - the results will be disastrous.
Disappointed with the conduct
But alongside the clear sense that law enforcement agencies understood and internalized that what could not have happened again, some family members feel like pouring the baby with the water, as a "just" and a "V" marking. Provides.
The late Moshe Mordechai Elhadad,
"The general feeling is that the problems are not being solved. Everyone is trying to cover themselves up and say that he has limited everything, instead of finding real solutions," a family member told Israel Today who asked not to reveal his identity. This is not the solution. Obviously order needs to be put in order, but the feeling is that everyone is trying to make a 'V'. "They will continue not to let the ambulance drivers pass because of the restrictions and the phrase 'everything is fine.'
"It is impossible to say that everything is being done to prevent the disaster, and the feeling is one of renunciation and the Knesset," Elhadad agrees.
There are efforts, but there is a systemic failure here.
The feeling is that you pour the baby with the water with all the restrictions.
I watch utter chaos.
I hope that I will be cheated and that everything will go smoothly by all parties. "Despite the criticism, the members of the Elhadad family intend to attend the celebration:" We will attend the celebration, my two brothers are buried there.
We are part of Meron. "
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