Rashbi's celebration: "People without a card will have to go through many checkpoints""

May 18, 2022   

One year after the major disaster at the Meron revelry: Tonight (Wednesday), the revelry will be held, for the first time, under a strict safety framework. Are you about to give birth? Receive: professional lectures, tips and pampering gifts Eliyahu Arend, an advisor to the Meron festival projector and in charge of community relations, spoke this morning (Wednesday) with Golan Yochpaz and Anat Davidov on 103FM and spoke about the preparations for the event. "There is very extensive preparation here and we hope that everything will go smoothly, in a good way. First and foremost, it is the behavior of the public. I think almost the entire Haredi public is listening to the instructions, behaving really exemplary." When asked how it can be ensured that the celebrants will leave the site at the end of the four hours that the entrance ticket grants - he replied: "We took a very large spare, four hours is more than the average, so that after four hours, it is clear and certain that people will not harm others. If there are problems, then they will have to move to the announcement phase. Beyond that, there are stages of more than that, I hope we don't get there. Nobody wants to reach the force, everyone wants it to go smoothly. "At the end of the day, the complex is fenced, and there will be no more than 16,000. It is true that if the public is not disciplined and does not leave, then people will get stuck in parking lots and on Highway 6. The public needs to know that if they do not follow the instructions, they are not only harming themselves, they are also harming others. "The police are deployed on routes far from Meron. Undisciplined people who come without a ticket or without a permit or without a bracelet will have to go through many checkpoints. Whenever there is a law, people can be on the sidelines and also violate the law. The public is mostly disciplined. If the mountain is full and there is a danger, and it exceeds what the safety engineers ordered - they will be forced to close it and people will get stuck on the roads. "If the mountain is too full, the commanders and supervisors will decide what to do at that moment. If it really is a dangerous situation, they will stop all the gates and people will be forced to stay in the parking lots." Arend later addressed the resignation of the safety consultant: "An external consultant who was paid by the hour, who saw the work. We took office three or four months ago, when Har was having a lot of safety problems. He resigned three weeks ago, because the work was around the clock and he was afraid that they wouldn't get to all this yet, so he didn't want to continue. All the instructions and all the things he asked for, I can say for sure - they finished the job. If the safety engineer for the event had resigned, I would have been very surprised. There were many external consultants who accompanied part of the process by the hour and not all of them continued the process. "He was an external consultant. He is not signed to any plan and he was not supposed to be signed to any plan either." On the possibility that there will be attempts to sabotage the celebration: "There are extremist people on the fringes of the Haredi public, and if there are a few dozen or a little more or a little less who are running against the call of the rabbis, I don't want to be their spokesman and I'm ashamed of it. It doesn't represent the Haredi public. It's a shame that headlines are made by extremist fringes who also harm the Haredi rabbis. Many rabbis and many rebbes have come out with a clear call to maintain the instructions. "The sanctity of life and the value of life are a world in and of themselves.".