On video: The families of those who perished in Miron are demanding a "real investigation"/photo: Roni Knafo
45 families stood alert today (Wednesday), in preparation for the submission of the conclusions of the State Commission of Inquiry regarding the Miron disaster.
In anticipation that has been going on for almost three years, they have been waiting to hear who will be found responsible and pay a personal price for what happened on the terrible day when their loved ones perished - or whether they will escape the serious conclusions of the report and their consequences.
With the publication of the report - which places personal responsibility on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , the Minister of Internal Security at the time Amir Ohana, the Minister of Religious Services at the time Yaakov Avitan and Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai - the Miron Disaster Families Forum commented on the conclusions. To hear the obvious: whoever is responsible for the success of the revelry, when it succeeds, is also responsible for its failure - a failure that ended with 45 dead citizens and more than 100 wounded."
At the forum, the families called on the government to show responsibility and added: "Take these conclusions and adopt them Your hearts, these conclusions were written in blood."
"Better justice too late than never."
Crowds of followers on the tribunes on the night of the disaster/Eli Ashkenazi
Dead bodies at the scene of the disaster in Miron/Reuters, Yishai Yerushalmi \ in rooms
Israel Diskind, the brother of Simcha Bonim who perished in the disaster and the speaker of the forum, said that "the personal conclusions against those responsible should first and foremost concern you, the citizens of Israel. We will be content with correcting the deficiencies, and a promise to generations that such a disaster will never change. A disaster that will be remembered for the rest of the world as the disaster of Israeli Hafiphenicism, And thanks to the committee's conclusions, it will also resonate throughout the world."
Shimon Israel Elhadad, who lost two of his brothers in the disaster, expressed himself in a spirit similar to Diskind's.
"We have been waiting for this report for almost three years, and I am hopeful that today, after so much time, the State of Israel will wake up and correct the wrong, both in terms of the responsibility of those who failed in their duties and in terms of commemorating the dead and repairing the mountain from end to end.
B. Justice begins to wear skin and sinews, it is better too late than never.
"The conclusions will echo forever," said the bereaved brother.
Simcha Bonim, who perished in the Miron disaster/courtesy of the family
Members of the Miron Committee/Government Press Office
This morning, in preparation for the submission of the investigation committee's conclusions, some of the families of those killed in the disaster gave a special message.
"Even then, when we demanded a state commission of inquiry, and even today - we do not demand revenge or the closing of accounts," they said, "we know that the disaster could have been avoided, and that the demand is for attention and responsibility, and for a systemic change in the bodies that were then connected to the disaster."
"We want the future of all of us to be living in a better, safer place, and for people to take more responsibility and pay attention," added representatives of some of the families of those killed in the disaster.
According to them, their main desire is "to benefit all of us in the future. The State Commission of Inquiry's investigation and implementation can lead us all forward to a more responsible and safer place, in order to prevent a similar disaster."
In their statement, the families thanked the members of the judicial committee, Deborah Berliner, Mordechai Karlitz, and Major (in resp.) Shlomo Yanai, and the chairman of the investigative committee, Miriam Naor, who passed away while the work of the investigative committee was in progress. All of it."
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