Why are people in Israel buried straight into the ground instead of in a coffin?

Dear Rabbi
Why are people in Israel buried straight into the ground instead of in a coffin?
Leonard

 Dear Leonard
“ dust you come and to dust you shall return.” The ideal is in fact to be buried directly in the earth in keeping with that verse. There are laws against that though in most countries who insist on a coffin instead. Coffin or earth – wishing you a long life before you get there.