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The spectacular that is the Maccabiah.

Bennett, a 50-year-old bowler
from Sydney, would die later in
the hospital. Sixty-five people had
been injured, five critically.
It was also known what hap-
pened — the temporary bridge
built to support the athletes on
their march into the stadium had
collapsed into the river when the
first delegation, from Australia,
had mounted it.
Now it was time for the official
explanations. Yoram Eyal, chair-
man of the Maccabiah Organiz-
ing Committee, said the
committee didn't want to cause
"panic" among the 50,000 specta-
tors by stopping the celebrations
and telling them all to go home.
Ramat Gan Mayor Zvi Bar made
the same argument, saying there
would have been a "riot" if such
a decision had been made.
But the spectators in the au-
dience weren't the panicking, ri-
oting type — they were mainly
VIPs and friends and acquain-
tances of VIPs who had wrangled
tickets, not soccer hooligans.
Besides, said the people in
charge, there weren't only practi-
cal considerations involved, but
patriotic ones as well. Eyal
stressed that the Maccabiah was
"an important national event."
Bar emphasized that the evening
was a salute to 100 years of Zion-
ism and 50 years of Israel.

Some of the worst Israeli qual-
ities were on display, including a
bullheaded determination to keep
dancing and singing in self-cele-
bration no matter what sort of cat-
astrophe was at hand. Officials in
charge seemed to confuse the col-
lapse of the bridge with an Arab
terror attack — the reflexive, ex-
cessively staunch Israeli attitudes
of 'We can't let our enemies stop
us" and "Life must go on" just
kicked in.
While Weizman was heavily
criticized for going ahead with his
opening speech and for support-
ing the organizing committee's de-
cision to go forward with the
festivities, Weizman's spokesman
insisted the president had "ex-
pressed his doubts" about the de-
cision.
Prime Minister Binyamin Ne-
tanyahu, who was in the audience,
said he advised the organizing
committee to suspend the event.
But the most startling perfor-
mances came in the evasion of re-
sponsibility for the bridge's
collapse. The Maccabiah organiz-
ing committee, the Ramat Gan
Municipality, the private compa-
ny that built the bridge, the com-
pany's metalwork subcontractor,
the building engineers and the Is-
rael police that approved the
bridge's safety all claimed inno-
cence.

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