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Apr 24, 2023
State insurance for Meron
Interestingly, no insurance company is willing to insure the upcoming Meron celebrations on Lag B'Omer. The people putting the event together are obviously throwing a fit about this. You can read all the relevant comments at Kikar from the various politicians and administrators involved...
To that end, without insurance, with the event just two or so weeks away, they are saying that unless the State insures the event with a solution presented next week they will put a halt to all preparations and abandon the event.
I am not sure who they think they are threatening. Does "the State" care if they do or do not put on a Lag B'Omer event?
Regardless of that, how does this work? If insurance companies will not insure an event, does the State have the ability to somehow? The State is not an insurance company. Under what authority or via what office using what methods and protocols can the State provide insurance to an event? How does this work? is this something normally done? They insist the State take responsibility but isnt that what happened last time even though it was not under the guise of insurance - the State paid families after the tragedy. What is this crisis really about?
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Lag B'Omer,
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If all the changes on the mountain are safe for the 100,000 or so visitors, then it's easy money for insurers. Why aren't the insurance companies interested? What do they know that unsuspecting visitors don't?
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the insurance companies don't want to touch this should be publicized widely. Everyone who wants to ascend to Meron should be made aware that there are still safety concerns there.
When that horrible episode happened at Meron, there were investigations which no one seems to talk about and there are many, many questions which have not been answered. Quite ugly.
ReplyDeleteNot sure where you get the idea that the state paid the families anything......
ReplyDeletehttps://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-nis-500000-compensation-for-each-meron-disaster-victim/
DeleteHilarious, do you really believe everything you read as a done deal?
DeleteInsurance companies could view this as a low probability high payout one time risk not worth the premium.
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