Disaster in Jerusalem, Israel which caused 23 deaths.
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Insufficient load capacity due to flawed structural design
Deaths
23
Non-fatal injuries
380
Charges
Manslaughter, Negligence
At 22:43 on 24 May 2001, a large portion of the third floor of the Versailles Wedding Hall collapsed in Talpiot, Jerusalem, Israel. Twenty-three people fell to their deaths through two stories, while another 356 were injured to varying degrees.[1][2]
The disaster is among the deadliest civil disasters in Israeli history, with only the 2010 Mount Carmel forest fire and the 2021 Meron crowd crush having a higher number of deaths.[3]
In the aftermath of the disaster, the Israeli parliament passed the "Versailles Law" establishing a special committee responsible for treating the people injured in the disaster and an investigative committee was established by the then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon under the leadership of the former judge Vardimos Zeiler, which probed both the Versailles disaster and the unrelated Maccabiah bridge collapse which had occurred several years earlier.
Eli Ron, who invented the Pal-Kal construction method, and three engineers involved in the construction of the hall were found guilty along with the three owners of the hall of causing death by negligence and sabotage by negligence.[2]
^"Wedding survivors recall night of horror". BBC News. 28 May 2001. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
^ abHasson, Nir (31 May 2007). "Versailles Wedding Hall Engineer Jailed for 23 Negligent Deaths". Haaretz. Archived from the original on 29 June 2023. Retrieved 19 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"2001: Israel wedding party tragedy". BBC News. 24 May 2008. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
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