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Netanyahu will be summoned to testify at the State Commission of Inquiry into the Meron Disaster Investigation Israel today

2022-06-26T10:31:41.626Z


Former Prime Minister is expected to testify on July 20. • Former National Security Council chief Meir Ben Shabbat will testify in about two weeks


The State Commission of Inquiry into the Meron Disaster Investigation is expected to summon former Prime Minister MK Benjamin Netanyahu to testify on July 20.

In addition to the chairman of the opposition, in about two weeks they will be summoned to testify at the committee by former National Security Council chief Meir Ben Shabbat and retired Brigadier General Zvi Tessler, who this year was in charge of the Lag B'Omer celebration at the compound.

Will testify.

MK Benjamin Netanyahu (archive), Photo: Oren Ben Hakon

As mentioned, in the testimony that Shas chairman, MK Aryeh Deri, gave to the committee about three weeks ago, he spoke about the difficulties in arranging the land on Mount Meron: "In order to submit a deposit, you need the submitter's signature.

No one wants to sign the plan.

"What I understood was that zealots and elements in Meron oppose it, saying that the program has a touristy character and that it will change the character of Atra Kadisha and make it like the Western Wall."

He went on to say that "Lag B'Omer begins the ultra-Orthodox wedding season, then, if there is a distribution of corona from the revelry, it would begin to pass at all the weddings.

Busquila police spokesman said 'everything is fine on paper, we do not know how to do it'.

"If you open the mountain to your people Israel, we do not know how to block them from entering the mountain, restrictions are too dangerous."

A year after the Meron disaster: climbing fences and rioting // Photo: Police spokeswoman



He said he turned to representatives of the Ministry of Transport and told them: 'Maybe you are the solution?

Are you the sole driver of the public, there are no private cars, maybe through you, or will you only put on the buses people with a green sign that the masses already have?

You can do a PCR for the children or you can sell tickets by the hour. "He claimed that the position of the Ministry of Transportation was very firm, in an unconventional way.

The Ministry of Transport did not agree in any way, that is how the discussion ended.

"The question arose as to whether they knew how to steer the Hasidim to take care of a green character. Everyone said good things, but no one took it upon themselves."

MK Deri testified in the inquiry committee, about three weeks ago,

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Source: israelhayom

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