The gravestones for Yosef David Elhadad, 18, and his 12-year-old brother, Moshe, bear an abbreviation that stands for ‘may the Almighty avenge his blood’
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May. 5, 2021 6:16 AM
Many of the families of the 45 victims of the stampede at Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s tomb on Mount Meron last week are demanding the establishment of a state inquiry committee that would question those responsible, so that they don’t feel their loved ones died for nothing.
Haaretz has also learned that some of the families are trying to organize a lawsuit against the responsible parties. One of the initiators is Moshe Steinmetz, a cousin of Dov Steinmetz, a Canadian citizen who was studying in the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and was killed at the tomb.