I have not too many details as of now about the discussions and halachic considerations, so maybe we will revisit this when more information comes out.
In the meantime...
The Chief Rabbinate has paskened that the vehicles destroyed in the October 7 massacre by Hamas should all be buried.
The reason is because it has been deemed too difficult to collect all the scraps of remains from within many of the cars. Because the cars have traces of human remains, they should be buried.
source: INN in the name of News12
I really think several of the cars should be used in some sort of memorial monument, sort of like the vehicles on the side of Highway 1 from the siege of Jerusalem - the vehicles were part of a convoy sent to break the Arab siege of Jerusalem in 1948. If I am not mistaken, there are 7 that were placed there as a monument. It doesnt require all the vehicles from October 7, or even many. If they can clean several of them of human remains they should so the cars can be used as some sort of monument.
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Except I have read in more than one place that Israel is already running out of cemetary space and resorting to burying graves so that more graves can be placed on them.
ReplyDeleteRunning out of space is a Chevra Kadisha argument to charge more for a plot. A plot is about 2-meter square or less. So, 6x6 miles is about 100 sq. kilometers. That is 100 million square meters. But you can only use half of that space (roads, passages etc.,) So you can use about 50 million square meters which is 25 million plots. So, there is plenty of room.
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