Two residents of Ma’ale Adumim, Idan Mizrahi and IDF soldier Sergeant Ariel Harali, were killed on Saturday night in a serious car accident. The funeral of the soldier, Harali, was scheduled for Saturday night, the date of Mizrahi’s funeral was scheduled for Sunday, as his parents were abroad at the time.
After the accident on Saturday night, a family member of the rally arrived at the scene and identified his body. Since it was a civilian accident, the bodies of the two young men were collected together and brought to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Abu Kabir. During the journey – it is not clear whether on the way to Abu Kabir or during the identification, a mistake was made in the registration, and the name tags of the two bodies were changed.
Early on Saturday morning he collected the wrapped body of the anti-rabbinate soldier on behalf of the IDF. He took the body, which was identified as that of the late Raleigh, to the IDF casualty identification facility in Ramla, where his commanders also identified him based on his appearance and confirmed that it was a soldier which they commanded.
The body was moved to the Herzl Mount cemetery, where the hitman rally was supposed to take place at 11:30 at night. However, in the purification room, just before the funeral ceremony, the family of Raleigh enters to say goodbye to him. There, much to the dismay, one of the family’s daughters screams hoarsely that this is not a rally.
Officials in the IDF collected the body and returned it to Abu Kabir, where the body of his friend, Idan Mizrahi, was also found. This time the family of the rally also arrived at the scene, accompanied by officials of the rabbinate. There the family members recognized that the body left in Abu Kabir was the correct body of the soldier. The rabbinate She was not satisfied with this and requires an additional means of identification. Because of this, a fingerprint test was carried out on the spot. The prints were collected and compared to the IDF databases, and indeed, additional confirmation was received that the body in Abu Kabir is that of Raleigh.
Following this chain of events, the funeral of the rally sergeant was postponed and finally took place at two o’clock that night.
The IDF said in response: “From a preliminary investigation of the findings of the incident, it emerged that the source of the error began with incorrect registration before the bodies arrived at the legal institute or their reception. After that, the sequence of the identification process was compromised. As a result, the soldier’s funeral ceremony took place shortly after the planned date. The incident will be investigated and the necessary lessons will be drawn from it The IDF shares in the family’s grief and will continue to accompany it.”