The Knesset’s Public Security Committee on Tuesday approved the new regulations for Lag B’Omer at Meron.
The regulations call for a three-month jail sentence and an administrative fine for anyone who violates the regulations, including those who arrive at Meron without a ticket or who fail to leave after four hours and anyone who operates an event at the site without the required permits.
The committee’s chairman, Yesh Atid MK Meirav Ben-Ari, said: “The committee members toured Har Meron last week…over the past year 63 illegal structures were demolished. The last one was demolished today.”
“The site is very small, too narrow to contain hundreds of thousands of mispallelim. Yesterday night, I checked and over 64,000 tickets had already been sold.”
“I still can’t understand how Meron was safe in the past, there were probably many nissim, and unfortunately, last year’s disaster was inevitable. We as a country must do everything to correct this and ensure the safety of visitors.”
Ben-Ari continued and said that she toured the area with the police and saw all the work that was done but she still doesn’t feel the area is completely safe.
As Ben-Ari said, the last illegal structure at Meron, the Ohr Rashbi yeshivah building, was demolished on Tuesday – the 63rd building to be demolished over the past year.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Something is wrong
Why has the local government allowed 63 buildings without planning permission
Where is the prison for them
3 months prison for going without a ticket !!!
Remember lots of Yidden are not exposed to media
Seems like the same anti charaidi strategy in play by this
Secular government
The puppet state occupant of Yisroel destroys a yeshiva/shul because it was built without a permit. No replacement. Which legal system do they observe there? Is it the Torah? What impedes Yisroel from observing Torah in Yisroel? I daven someday it may be possible to go live in Yisroel in the way Hashem instructed without interference from those that seek to uproot Torah from Yisroel.
64,000 tickets, I am sorry, that is still dangerous. All it takes is a few young boys and the make a tiny Tumul at Miron and they start dancing on a roof and then the Police quickly come and the Police have to quickly move through the heavy crowd and people get shoved aside. Only a small tiny riot will cause panic when you have 64,000 people in a tiny place because the Police quickly come to the scene and it gets complicated.
Even with the new arrangements, outside experts still are worried about the potential risks for a large crowd gathering . There are also reports that tens of thousands of yungerleit who were unable to get tickets, are still planning to travel to Meron anyway and find ways of sneaking on to the site and watch the hadlakah. Another accident waiting to happen??
To Loshenhora: The surest way to kill lots of Charedim is to remove all regulations for Meron and let them trample each other and push themselves into the bonfire. I am opposed to such a proposal.
Yesh Atid MK Meirav Ben-Ari, Chairman of the Knesset’s Public Security Committee, will bear personal responsibility for any accident, chas veshalom, that occurs this year. If she feels after she toured the area with the police and saw all the work that was done but she still doesn’t feel the area is completely safe, she should use her authority as Committee Chairman and close off the whole area of Meron with police and troops and not allow anyone, except legal residents, within a mile of the Tzion. Either it is safe for the public or it is not.