Israel sees a day of mourning for the dead of religious holidays Middle East News

At least 45 people were killed in an accident involving an ultra-Orthodox faith on Friday.

Israel is watching a day of mourning for the 45 people killed in a Jewish religious festival, with flags lowered in the middle of the workforce and questions raised about responsibility for one of the country’s most serious civil disasters.

According to Jewish tradition, funerals were held with as little delay as possible. More than 20 victims of the disaster on Mount Meron on Friday were buried after official identification was completed.

“I also want to get a small part of your height in studies and holy devotion,” said Avigdor Chayut, praising his 13-year-old son Yedidya at a funeral in the village of Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv.

The victims were killed during an annual pilgrimage by a large number of ultra-Orthodox believers to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Jewish mystic from northern Israel.

Witnesses described a body pyramid, including several children, in a full, slippery metal floor walkway. Among the dead were at least 10 children and adolescents under the age of 18.

The Israeli media estimated that about 100,000 people were involved, and that number underscored that the spread of the coronavirus that preceded others in the spread of vaccines had calmed down.

Evidence was growing that he was waiting for the catastrophe to happen, as the state’s pilgrimage site has been declared dangerous by researchers a few years ago.

They were wondering if the government and the police were reluctant to reduce the crowd so as not to anger the ultra-orthodox rabbis and influential politicians.

“An in-depth investigation needs to be done,” Culture Minister Hili Tropper told Kan public radio. “This terrible catastrophe will help everyone understand … that there should be no place where the state doesn’t set rules.”

The justice ministry said investigators will look into whether there has been any misconduct by police. Police Minister Amir Ochana wrote on Facebook that he would go before the cameras after identifying and burying all the victims.

Witnesses complained that police allowed people to enter the area surrounded by them, even though it was already overcrowded and did not open the exits on both sides properly after frightening people.

In a 2008 report, the state controller, the government’s guard office, warned that conditions at the site, including escape routes, “put people at risk.”

Police and regional government officials said the Mount Meron site was managed by four private religious groups, making it difficult to monitor.