Maccabiah Disaster
On July 14, 1997, four members of the Australian delegation to the Maccabiah Games were killed and 60 injured as a result of the collapse of a temporary pedestrian bridge over the Yarkon. The deaths were eventually traced to a fungal infection caused by aspiration of the heavily polluted water.
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“From disaster good fortune comes, and in good fortune lurks disaster.”
—Chinese proverb.