Former administrators at a pre-military academy are indicted for their alleged role in the death of 10 teenagers in a flash flood in April 2018 in the so-called Tzafit stream disaster.
Both the former head of the Bnei Zion academy in Tel Aviv, Yuval Kahan, and its former education director, Aviv Bardichev, will be charged with reckless homicide, which carries a penalty of up to 12 years in prison.
The students, who were high school seniors trying out for the academy, were caught in the flooding during a desert hike near the Dead Sea.
Bardichev is alleged to have changed the route of the trip from the Tze’elim stream to the Tzafit stream despite being warned by a weather forecasting company not to travel in the area due to flooding.
Kahan, meanwhile, allegedly knew about the route change but chose to trust Bardichev’s judgment.
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