The committee set up to seek an engineering solution for the
railroad tracks slated for construction in the middle of an
ancient cemetery in Acco is scheduled to hold another meeting
on Wednesday this week.
Excavation work was stopped two-and-a-half weeks ago
following Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's pledge through
Government Secretary Yisrael Maimon to Maran HaRav Eliashiv
he would have excavation work halted for a period of three
weeks during which a search would be conducted for a solution
satisfactory to all parties.
Last week the committee, officially comprised of rabbonim,
representatives of the Association for the Prevention of
Grave Desecration and representatives of the Transportation
Ministry and the Prime Minister's Office, met for the first
time. However a representative of the Prime Minister's Office
was not informed of the meeting and so the meeting ended
without producing any results.
Degel HaTorah Secretary MK Rabbi Moshe Gafni then arranged
with Government Secretary Yisrael Maimon to hold an urgent
committee meeting with all members present in order to arrive
at an engineering solution as soon as possible to avoid the
continued desecration of the graves.
Rabbi Gafni expressed hopes Wednesday's meeting would produce
a solution in the form of a bridge, a tunnel or any other
engineering option, based on a common desire among all of the
committee members to solve the problem before the three
weeks' halt the Prime Minister promised comes to an end.
