MK (Yahadut Hatorah) filed a query with Education Minister (Yesh Atid) Shai Prion who is responsible for Hebrew University regarding his discovery that boxes of human bones have simply been thrown into a basement on campus and left in an unacceptably dishonorable fashion.

He cites the bones originated in archeological sites and they were brought to the university campus where they are discarded in boxes without any effort to provide a measure of dignity for the departed. He calls the university’s actions “contrary to moral behavior and a total disregard for the law” for the law states that bones uncovered during digs must be taken to the Ministry of Religious Services for burial. He questions how a prominent university is permitted to trample the law as it wishes.

Maklev, a deputy Knesset speaker, laments the total disregard for ‘kovod hamess’. He calls the situation an affront to society at large, pointing out the law does not differentiate between Jewish or non-Jewish bones. He calls on the Education Ministry to take immediate and appropriate action.

He calls for immediate action to avoid a situation that will chas v’sholom mimic the former situation in the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute during the tenure of former Chief Pathologist Prof. Yehuda Hiss, who was found to have stored thousands of tissue, organ and body parts samples at that facility R”L.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)