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State commission finds Netanyahu personally responsible for deadly Meron disaster
Then-opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu arrives to testify before the Meron Disaster Inquiry Committee, in Jerusalem, on July 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
A state commission of inquiry has found Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally responsible for the April 2021 Mount Meron disaster, in which 45 people were killed in a crush at the hilltop gravesite of a second-century sage in northern Israel despite numerous safety warnings ahead of time.
However, the inquest offers no operative recommendation for Netanyahu.
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