Mother of dead student: They promised everything would be okay

Family and friends attend the funeral of Ella Or, one of 10 students killed in flash floods yesterday while hiking near the Dead Sea.

Or’s mother, Sarit, speaks of the concern she expressed for her daughter’s well-being during the hike and the assurances she received from the guides of the pre-military academy.

“They promised that everything would be okay and secure. But nothing is okay,” she says during the funeral at the Mishor Adumim cemetery.

“You sent me a picture in the morning in the tent and wrote to me not to worry. I asked you not to put too much weight on your back. You haven’t answered me since,” the mother says.

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