Will be held criminally liable? Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu He will appear before the State Commission of Inquiry into Disaster in Meron tomorrow. He will be the last witness to appear before the committee, which has already heard testimonies from over a hundred people.
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Prior to the testimony, 11 regulations were unveiled tonight (Wednesday) in the news here in preparation for the revelry that ended in the disaster, which Netanyahu was supposed to sign – but according to the report, it turns out that he did not sign it in the end, and that his associates Amir Ohana and Aryeh Deri They are the witnesses who complicated him the most.
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The disaster in Meron. Photo: Police spokeswoman
According to the report, from the various testimonies in the committee, including the testimonies of the then Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana And the Minister of the Interior Aryeh Deri, It emerged that Netanyahu, following heavy political pressure from the ultra-Orthodox, decided that Mount Meron would be open to hundreds of thousands of immigrants, even though at that time corona laws prohibited gatherings of more than a hundred people in open areas.
To do so, Netanyahu had to sign regulations that would go beyond the revelry – but Netanyahu, who bothered to intervene at first and order an open mountain, did not make sure to convene the Corona Cabinet, not the government, and not sign regulations. And in the end, the revelry took place without regulations or a government decision exceeding it from the constraints of the gathering.
There were legal advisers in government ministries who said in real time that the incident was illegal, and members of the commission of inquiry made it clear during the hearings that this is how they see it. They further clarified that if the default rules had been met and convergence had been limited, the disaster would not have occurred.
According to the report, legal sources believe that the celebration, contrary to the Corona regulations and the circumstantial connection of this fact to the disaster, may be attributed to Netanyahu’s duty – to the point of criminal responsibility for an event that ended in 45 deaths.
The Likud said in response to the publication: “Pike News, deliberate deception and consciousness engineering. Regulations, the presentation of which was not validated by the Corona Cabinet decision, were not approved by the ombudsman and therefore were never signed by Netanyahu.”