The Likud party officially responded to the State Commission of Inquiry’s report on the Meron Disaster, which attributed personal responsibility for the incident to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and then-Public Security Minister Amir Ohana.
The party started by addressing the enormity of the event: “the Meron Disaster is a tragic disaster. Our hearts are with the families of the victims. In practice, the government has already implemented the natural conclusions and the last event at Meron took place with a large crowd and without a hitch. The government will examine the need to learn additional operative lessons to prevent the recurrence of such a disaster.”
“This is clearly an entirely political provocation”
The party later accused the previous, non-Likud led government for the commission’s personal recommendations against the Likud leader: “However, we are sorry that for the first time in the history of the state, the government led by Bennet formed a commission of inquiry against its predecessor on the political right, whose central member was a close friend of Lapid, Shlomo Yannai, who received an offer from him for a spot on the Yesh Atid list for the Knesset. This is clearly an entirely political provocation.”
“Lapid’s cynical and deliberate effort to turn the Meron Disaster into a political battering ram – won’t succeed,” they concluded.