On video: Documenting the moment when the revelry in Miron turns into a tragedy/photo: The National Center for the Development of the Holy Places
Ahead of the publication of the conclusions of the commission of inquiry into the Miron disaster tomorrow (Wednesday), the families of the killers share their urgent anticipation, their desire to make sure that such a disaster will not happen again, and the difficulty of moving on after the loss.
Regarding the timing of the publication of the conclusions during the war, they say with hope: "It will not overshadow the conclusions of the committee."
Rabbi Avigdor Hayut, who lost his son Yedidia in the disaster, said: "Our expectation is that the conclusions that will be published tomorrow will have meaning. That it will have results. I know that from a distance of time, the disaster looks different, especially because our country experienced and has experienced very difficult things since then, but as everyone knows who has experienced a tragedy or a great disaster, even if the train continued on, it is still stuck at its station. We deal with the disaster every day, and our desire, after such a large and significant event with 45 deaths, the committee's conclusions will put order once and for all around the revelry and Mount Meron in general, Otherwise, what's the use?
"From the beginning, we demanded this committee not to look for culprits or to behead heads.
Even when Superintendent Shimon Lavi resigned from his position in the police - it did not make us calmer.
There was and there is a person here who failed, who should do his soul-searching for himself.
It won't help me personally if there are personal consequences here.
We want to make sure of one thing: no person will ever again face such prices of human life or with a reality that my family and I face every day, hour by hour."
"We are not looking for culprits, we want to make sure that such a disaster does not happen again."
The scene of the disaster, April 2021/Flash 90, David Cohen
Shay Sarfati, son of Moshe, father of four who perished in the disaster at the age of 65, said: "This is a national disaster and a private disaster and the most unnecessary death there is. This is a disaster that we as a country must not allow in any way to happen to any family. We are very alert for the publication of the committee's conclusions. Since the disaster we have had a feeling that no one has provided us with answers or taken real responsibility and we want to know tomorrow who is responsible, mainly to prevent such cases in the future.
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"We are very alert for the publication of the committee's conclusions."
Moshe Sarfati, who was killed in the Miron disaster/courtesy of the family
"We have a very great desire to know how and what could have been prevented, even though none of these answers will bring our father back to us. We saw in this committee that we fought for its establishment, a very great hope as one that was designed to provide answers to the greatest disaster that happened in our country. There is no doubt that since October 7 It has been proven that there are bigger disasters, but I don't think this will put the committee's conclusions in the dark or cause them not to be implemented."
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