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Meron and other holy sites close for Lag B’Omer

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This year’s Lag B’Omer celebrations in Israel will see significant changes due to the ongoing conflict with Hezbollah in the north of the country, and recent emergency measures taken by Israeli authorities. The traditional pilgrimage...
Smaller crowds celebrate the holiday of Lag B'Omer in Meron on May 19, 2022. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

130,000 worshippers arrive at subdued Mount Meron Lag B’Omer celebrations

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A more subdued religious celebration occurred on Mount Meron in northern Israel on Wednesday evening, in which a total of some 130,000 worshippers arrived at the site, according to Israeli media outlets. One year after...
Grand Rabbi of Boyan (Chassidic dynasty) lights the bonfire during Lag B'Omer celebrations in Meron on May 18, 2022. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israel celebrates Lag B’Omer with thousands in Meron amid extra precautions

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Thousands of people traveled on Wednesday night to Meron in northern Israel to celebrate Lag B’Omer a year after tragedy struck the festivities. A heavy police presence was reported on-site, where a memorial ceremony took...
Candles mark the site of the Meron disaster, at the Rashbi's gravesite on Mount Meron in northern Israel, March 2, 2022. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Families of Mount Meron stampede victims seek millions in damages

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The families of those who died in the 2021 Mount Meron disaster have filed a lawsuit against the government, emergency services and several private organizations that greenlighted the Lag B’Omer festivities that ended in the tragic...
An Orthodox Jewish man visits Mount Meron in northern Israel, where 45 Israelis lost their lives during a stampede at a Lag B'Omer celebration, May 3, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Work continues at Meron to prepare for Lag B’Omer

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Work continues at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron to prepare the site for Lag B’Omer this year after the disaster last April, when 45 people were killed in a stampede. Structures at the...
Israeli public security minister Amir Ohana in Tzfat, visiting the family of Shlomo Zalman, who died on April 30 in the Meron stampede, May 5, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

‘If your conscience is clear, there’s no reason to resign,’ says Israel’s public security...

Israeli Public Security Minister Amir Ohana is sticking to his guns after sparking controversy for saying that while he was responsible for the tragedy at Mount Meron on April 30, “responsibility does not mean...
Israelis comfort one another in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square following the Lag B'Omer stampede in Meron that resulted in the deaths of 45 Jewish worshippers, May 2, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Can a disaster breed Jewish unity or widen the communal breach?

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There is nothing positive to be gleaned from an event that led to the deaths of 45 Jews and injuring of 150 others. The wake of a fatal stampede in the early hours of...
An Orthodox Jewish man visits Mount Meron in northern Israel, where 45 Israelis lost their lives during a stampede at a Lag B'Omer celebration, May 3, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

Israeli AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster

Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit said on Monday that there is no legal impediment to establishing a state commission of inquiry into the Lag B’Omer disaster, not even in the case of a provisional government. “Although...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin (center) with the winners of this year's Jerusalem Unity Prize at the President's Residence, May 3, 2021. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Rivlin at Jerusalem Unity Prize ceremony: ‘We are one human fabric’

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Israeli President Reuven Rivlin hosted the seventh Jerusalem Unity Prize ceremony at his official residence in the capital on Monday. The event, which is a joint initiative of the Jerusalem Municipality, Gesher and the families of Eyal...
Mourners attend the funeral of brothers Yosef David Elhadar and Moshe Mordechai Elhadar, two victims of the stampede in Meron during the celebration of Lag B'Omer, May 2, 2021. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.

The names and faces of those who lost their lives at Mount Meron

Some of the people killed in the stampede at Lag B’Omer celebrations on Mount Meron were laid to rest on Saturday night, with the Abu Kabir Institute of Forensic Medicine having identified the 45 bodies by...