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NEWS
Meron Traffic Jams
by Y. Ariel
The Office of the Chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs
Committee, MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni, received numerous
complaints this week about traffic jams on Lag BaOmer both
to and from Meron. Many visitors to Meron complained that
police traffic control had been a failure. As a result,
there were numerous traffic jams that lasted for many hours:
in many cases the trip from the Tel Aviv area to Meron took
more than six hours.
Rabbi Gafni had planned to hold an urgent meeting on the
issue within the framework of the Committee for Internal
Affairs, which he heads. However, Commander-in-Chief of the
Police Department Shlomo Aharonishki said that the police
has set up its own investigative committee. As a result,
Rabbi Gafni announced that the Committee will not deliberate
on the issue until it receives the Police report.
Reports from the scene said that the entire transportation
system there collapsed in the middle of the night. There
were many complaints against Egged. A spokesman for the bus
company said that 30 of its buses waited for three hours to
leave the parking lots, unable to do so because of the
traffic.
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