‘Infuriating and disrespectful’: Coalition MK Tzvi Sukkot joins condemnation of Likud response to Meron inquiry

6 March 2024, 9:52 pm

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Zvi Sukkot attends a Religious Zionism Party meeting at the Knesset, January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Religious Zionism MK Tzvi Sukkot adds his voice to the growing condemnation coming from within the government in response to the Likud party’s disdain of the state commission of inquiry into the 2021 Meron disaster.

“As someone who has visited [Meron] for decades, unfortunately, I can say that overcrowding and overlapping were the defining symbol of Mount Meron on Lag Ba’omer,” the ultranationalist MK writes on X, describing “desperate disorder, together with urgency and chaos on narrow slippery stairs” as being the norm at the hilltop gravesite.

“The attempt to define the findings of the commission of inquiry as political is sad, infuriating and disrespectful to the dozens of victims,” he adds.