Overview
- Police arrested two daycare workers and said potential charges under review include reckless homicide and negligence.
- Initial environmental checks and hospital blood tests detected no hazardous substances, and investigators are examining a heat or air‑conditioning dehydration hypothesis.
- The facility operated without a license in a residential apartment, and first responders described overcrowded, substandard conditions under criminal investigation.
- The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court authorized autopsies after external exams were inconclusive, the families appealed, and protests led to clashes and a temporary delay ordered by Judge Anat Greenbaum.
- Hospitals released most of the 53–55 evacuated children in good condition, and the infants who died were identified as Leah Tzipporah Goleventzitz and Aharon (Ari) Katz.