Clearly, it would have been total chaos, had they attempted to hold the levayah erev shabbos. The Sunday AM timing clearly prevented mass chillul shabbos by attendees as well as providing minimal time for planning the necessary security to prevent sakanas nefesh from a sudden mass crowding event. If you watched the levayah, you could see how tight and narrow the streets were around the Rav’s Z’L home which could have been Meron 2.0 without some pre-planning. Even with those security precautions it still seemed semi-chaotic but perhaps thats inevitable in these situations.
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