Stage design company blames ceremony organizers for Mt. Herzl accident

Officials at Itzuv Bama, the company that constructed the stage that collapsed on Jerusalem's Mount Herzl during rehearsals for an Independence Day ceremony on Wednesday, blamed the organizers for failing to clear the premises once they noticed the light fixtures are swaying.

"A life could have been saved," Evyatar Banyan, the company's vice president, told Ynet. "A production official should have stopped it. They had the time to inform us." (Nir Cohen)