If you ask a secular person whether the revelry at Lag B'Omer was a success or a failure, he will tell you clearly that it was a success: after all, there were no wounded or dead.
Threatens, resigns and returns: the government will move the preparation for the Miron celebration to retirement
If you ask an ultra-Orthodox person the same question, he will answer that it was a resounding failure: people dried up for long hours in the sun at remote waiting points, without water or food, and if they managed to reach Miron - they discovered there an event that can hardly be called a celebration.
Only thousands were approved to climb the mountain, using a moving film method, and when the event began the layout collapsed like a house of cards.
The revelry in Miron, before the disaster (archive), photo: Israel Police
After the failed event, all parties were accused of negligence.
The production - in that it was not conducted properly, the police - and more and more.
The bouncers were not ultra-orthodox and did not know the most important nuances for this sector.
The parking lots were not prepared for the load placed on them and were dark, with no possibility to buy or receive food, drinks, etc.
The completely legitimate request from the Hasids - to allow them to perform their "tish" under the miron in regulated places, also fell on deaf ears.
There was only one goal - to prevent casualties - and to hell with everything else.
took it back.
Meir Proosh, photo: Oren Ben Hakon
This is the core of the event in which Minister Meir Proosh resigned from his position and returned to it this week.
About two years after the Miron disaster, the various parties still prefer to close corners and de facto cancel the revelry just so that there are no casualties.
For this reason, apparently, he was the one who re-approved the production company, which was certainly not run optimally, on the head of the minister in charge.
If there were no casualties, the revelry passed peacefully, perhaps some of them did the math.
But it is not possible to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
A solution must be found to hold the party - safely.
For this reason Minister Proush was right: if he does not get all the power to make the decisions - how is he supposed to take full responsibility for such an explosive and sensitive event.
Ason Miron, archive, photo: David Cohen - Gini
Now the retired minister has received full responsibility, but now he will also have to provide receipts: the pressure on the appointed minister is certainly great.
Every group in the ultra-orthodox sector wants as many celebrations as possible with as few restrictions as possible, and minister Porush and the project manager will have to find the solution in order to provide them with what they want as much as possible - without endangering those who come and go.
Last year the ultra-Orthodox community demanded that there be no police on the mountain and when they did not get what they asked for they tried to blow up the whole event.
The Karlin Hasidim, whose followers were killed both in the Miron disaster and in the Givat Ze'ev disaster shortly after, tried to approve a complex that crossed necessary emergency passages.
The minister in charge of Miron must take all the power given to him and act responsibly.
enable safe revelry.
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