Lapid: Framing the Meron inquiry as political shows how low Netanyahu will stoop

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reaction to the findings of the Meron disaster inquiry is “a shameful disgrace” to the memory of the 45 people killed in a crush at the hilltop gravesite in 2021.

“The attempt to discredit Maj. Gen. Yanai and Rabbi Mordechai Karlitz, the former mayor of Bnei Brak, as if their considerations were political, only proves the low level to which Netanyahu has stooped in his attempts to avoid responsibility for a disaster in which a state investigative committee determined emphatically that he was guilty,” Lapid says.

Earlier, the Likud party released a statement accusing Lapid and former prime minister Naftali Bennett, who ordered the state commission of inquiry, of using the disaster as a “political weapon” against Netanyahu.