Following a petition from the infants’ families, Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled that no autopsies are to be performed on the two babies who were tragically niftar at a daycare in Jerusalem on Monday.
The Supreme Court accepted the appeal filed by the legal department of ZAKA on behalf of the families of the two infants who perished in the daycare disaster in Jerusalem, opposing the autopsies of their bodies.
The justices overturned the decision of the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court that had approved performing the autopsies and stated that this was a step taken to preserve the kavod of the deceased.
Attorney Dror Shosheim, who represented the families on behalf of ZAKA, said: “This is an important decision that reflects human sensitivity and kavod for the dead. Thanks to the judges who understood the sensitivity.”
The ZAKA organization submitted an appeal to the Supreme Court following the Magistrate’s Court decision on Monday evening approving autopsies of the babies to determine the cause of death.
Shnir Elmaliach, a representative of the ZAKA legal department, represented the families during the hearing. After the judge issued the ruling, one of the babies’ fathers fainted in the courtroom.
Following the lower court’s decision to approve the autopsies despite the opposition of the families, ZAKA released a statement, saying, “Following the decision, ZAKA’s legal department announced that it would appeal to the Supreme Court, seeking to exhaust every legal avenue to protect the kavod of the babies and minimize harming them as much as possible.”
The hearing took place at 3 p.m. before a panel of justices Alex Stein, Ruth Ronen, and Yechiel Kasher.
The head of ZAKA, explained in an interview with Ynet: “The cause of death is also important halachically. It is relevant, but we are not sure that an autopsy at the moment will add to the findings regarding the cause of death beyond what is currently established. There are enough means today, including technological ones, that can, in our opinion, determine the cause of death. And that is all we are asking, to exhaust the maximum possible and that the family be heard for the sake of the kavod of the deceased.”
The coordinator of ZAKA’s legal department, Michael Guttwein, told Kan News, “In this case, an autopsy is unnecessary. There are shattered parents here to whom they’re stabbing another knife in their hearts. We hope that the Supreme Court will have mercy on the parents and allow them to live in peace.”
ZAKA proposed a compromise: that the infants undergo non-invasive toxicological tests that could reveal the cause of death. However, since the results would only be available in weeks or months, the judge rejected the proposal.
During the night, large protests against the autopsies broke out in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, and the protests resumed on Tuesday.
(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)
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19 Responses
Well the Supreme Court got this one right, & this shall put Chareidim in a predicament, that they shall now have to think/ponder more prudently, before lambesting the Supreme Court, or the מדינה for that matter.
So we’ll never know how they died. Great.
This is against Halacha. The real Sanhedrin would do a full investigation, so we can prosecute those responsible. Maybe Galus… etc…
This is the difference between real Torah chachamim and wrong. Kavod hames? Really? The neshamos of these want and deserve justice!!
And now they’ll never get it….
Years ago when the government was forcing autopsies on all Jews in Israel there were many protests here in a New York. Now that the Chareidi population has increased dramatically the court is afraid it could lead to riots that may destroy the entire court.
Flatbush yid, did you read what the court said; it does not appear so. read before you offer imagined explanations.
At Happy New Year:
Satisfying YOUR curiosity is not part of this equation.
To Happy New Year: Were your parents by any chance related (before marriage)?
Dr yidd. It don’t matter what the court said publicly. Privately they know that if they would have allowed this autopsy there would be hundreds of thousands of wild Chareidim take apart the Supreme Court brick by brick and no police force could stop them. Chareidim are expanding. Fifty per cent of first graders are Chareidim. In twenty years the Chareidim are taking over everything. From the army to the navy. To the Air Force. The army will be run like a Jewish army with no girls allowed. You can laugh now but everyone knows it’s a matter of time. As far as the Arabs they will be replaced by a million. Chinese. They don’t hate Jews. It worked in Boro park and it will work in Israel. The prime minister will be someone on the level of Reb. Chaim kanefsky
And one more point.
Signs will be in Hebrew,English and Yiddish.
The entire story was reported wholly inaccurately and disparaging knocking the community!
REAL FAKE NEWS
There were indeed 53 children spread about 45 apartments. The babysitter and her assistant had only 12 children in their care. The numbers are fake and cruel to a whole community of honest yidin. It’s shameful for reporting agencies to file stories without first verifying. Shameful and hurtful. רכילות and לשון הרע
flatbush yid, you are delusional. without an economy that has rather limited hareidi contribution, no country can survive; it is a principle: AIN SOMCHIM AL HANESS!
The Israeli media is made up of leftist radicals. The most racist leftists is the Supreme Court,the army elite,the media and the fight attendants.
To 147: I’ve edited your post to be sensible:
Well the Chareidim got this one right, & this shall put Chareidi haters in a predicament, that they shall now have to think/ponder more prudently, before lambesting protests, or the גדולים for that matter.
אז הנה לאט לאט מתבהרת הטרגדיה וחושפת את המציצנות (תרבות הנייעס) החרדית העגומה שהזינה את מה שמתברר כעלילת דם אומללה.
1. התינוקות נפטרו מהתייבשות מחום המזגן ולא מהרעלה.
2. מי מאנשי ההצלה נחפז לקבוע ללא כל ריח או סימן מחשיד שמדובר בהרעלה המונית.
3. מי מאנשי ההצלה שנחפז לזירה החליט על דעת עצמו! לפנות את הגנים הסמוכים!!! שבפיקוח!!!
4. הגננות שם לא הבינו מה רוצים מחייהם והלה מיהר להפיץ שהם מסרבות וככל הנראה מעלימות ראיות!!! בזמן שהאסון ארע בכלל בדירה הסמוכה
5. המשטרה הגיעה וסגרה את המרחב, כל מתנדב תפס תינוק \ת ומהם דאגו לעמוד מול מצלמות התקשורת
6. ככה נוצרה היסטרייה ובהלה ש53 תינוקות פונו במצב קשה לבית חולים, כאשר האמת שהמספר הזה לא מתחיל. רק התינוקות שעברו החייאה מדירת המטפלת היו בסכנה.
7. בתקשורת מתקבע שדירה אחת הכילה 53 תינוקות. ש”ס מוציאה הודעות לתקשורת שהצפיפות בגלל הפסקת התקצוב ..
8. מציצן מגעיל ניצל את הסיטואציה שבמהלך ההחייאה הסלון היה בבלגן והכניסו לאותו רגע את התינוקות לחדר השירותים. וככה נפוצה עלילת הדם שבמעון ‘הפיראטי’ היו 53 תינוקות, ‘וחלקם בשירותים’, ממש הזנחה פושעת.
9. המוצצה לשלום דם הילד יצאה מהחור לגנות את ‘הרשלנות הפושעת’ של המעון החרדי הפיראטי בטרם גוועו התינוקות… כאשר רק לפני כמה ימים שתקה המועצה על דריסת ילד בן 13 וגרירתו מאות מטרים.
10. והרשתות ‘הישראליות’… מלאות באיחולי מוות ושנאה אכזרית שמחווירה את תגובות האנטישמיות שבעולם. ושום מנהל אתר לא חושב למחוק וכמובן לא יובא לדין על הסתה עידוד רצח ושפיכת דם.
אלה הפנים העכורות של הערב רב.
גועל!
Think about this the next time you kvetch about demonstrations.
An autopsy in this case is MANDATED by the Torah.
ודרשת וחקרת היטב
We need עדים and an autopsy will give us a proper אנן סהדי.
Who needs to go to גלות??
Even the terrorist Supreme Court didn’t agree that it was mandated. Stop quoting your fake misguided interpretations of the Torah. The posek hador didn’t agree with you and I believe he knows that pasuk too
The Supreme Court in Israel does not follow the Torah. Shocker
Unless someone is hiding something, in that case, they don’t want the public to know.
Happy new year:
“The neshamos of these want and deserve justice!!
And now they’ll never get it….”
The babies neshamos are in a better place, trust me- they do not care about justice for women who are surely suffering enough already. They know and you probably should too, that it’s all according to Hashem’s plan… They were meant to pass away, and nothing anyone did could have prevented it. No need for drama and feeling bad for those ‘unavenged’ neshamos. And I agree it’s kavod hames- it’s known that the neshama suffers whilst the body is as yet unburied.
I think you guys need to get a grip on your priorities.
Stop worrying so much about babies who are in olam habo, and realise that you want them to mess with their bodies simply to satisfy your own curiosity.