To the OP – Actually? I think among the BIGGEST korbon’s in this tragedy are Aryeh Deri, and the organizers of the event. How Deri must feel, is beyond what I can fathom, way worse than when he was imprisoned. Somewhat like that guy in the Modiin region who chauffered a neighbor’s child in hot weather, and forgot he was in the car.
The crazy thing is, Deri had not even wanted to be in the knesset after he was imprisoned – they begged him. I wonder if there’s a support group for people like that. That’s probably why Rav Shteinman was so adamant about a toned-down levaya.
I’m sure he very much remembered what happened at Rav Wosner’s levaya.
So many people are attributing the tragedy to things like tzniut, talking in shul etc. I’m not saying those aren’t factors. What i am saying is that the most obvious which may be less talked about is: This is an immature, infantile generation, which doesn’t look before it leaps. Doesn’t think before it acts. Isn’t roeh es hanolad, to think of the outcome of every one of its actions. For example, that giving kids motorized bikes and letting them drive recklessly, is lots of excruciating irreversible pain waiting to happen to the victims they knock down.