Engineers Sentenced for Deadly Banquet Hall Collapse
An Israeli court has sentenced the engineer who developed the “Pal Kal” building method, after he was convicted of gross negligence in the deaths of 23 people and the injury of hundreds of others in the May 24, 2001, collapse of a wedding hall in Jerusalem.
Eli Ron was given a four-year prison term. Two other engineers, Shimon Kaufman and Dan Sheffer, who designed the building, were given 22-month sentences and a third engineer, Uri Pesach, an assistant to the inventor, a six-month term.