[T]he ramp on which 45 people died on Friday morning was built without permission, [a local politician] said.
“Anyone who looked at that slope could see it was something that was just thrown together,” he said. “The incline was too great, the metal floor was something you could easily slip on.”
“I tried to stop this,” he added. “I wrote letters. I got nothing.”
Part of the problem is the lack of a clear management system on the mountain. Four Haredi groups run different parts of the compound, but none has jurisdiction over the entire site. The group that oversees the area where the disaster occurred, Toldot Aharon, rejects the authority of the state, and the concept of Zionism, altogether.
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See my theory of the disaster in the post below. The state of Israel to Toldot Aharon: Go ahead and kill yourselves.