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Berliner will replace ex-Supreme Court chief justice Miriam Naor, who died last week at the age of 74

Prime minister calls Naor 'one of the most significant judges of our time' at funeral at capital’s Sanhedria cemetery

Justice Minister Gideon Sa'ar brands as 'inhuman' MK's remark that late Supreme Court chief justice 'destroyed a once glorious institution'

Retired jurist, who was serving as head of state commission of inquiry into Meron disaster, remembered as 'one of the titans of Israeli law'

Head of police operations division says commissioner responded to his warning ahead of deadly event by saying 'Don't worry, any commission of inquiry will be on me'

Eli Friend testifies before commission into Israel’s worst civilian disaster: 'I begged, but I was not even invited to a single meeting'

Shmuel Rabinovitch testifies before commission into Israel's worst peacetime disaster: 'They didn't tell us there was an issue with the passageway. Nobody brought it up to us'

Northern district chief says failure to impose caps on attendance was itself driven by safety concerns, as barricades could cause 'bottlenecks and much greater disasters'

Matanyahu Englman says move will allow official inquiry to 'optimally and exclusively' investigate the deadly crush that killed 45 people in April