Tag: Mount Meron
IDF cancels Mount Meron event due to security concerns
The Israel Defense Forces on Thursday ordered the cancellation of an upcoming religious event on Mount Meron in northern Israel due to the ongoing conflict with Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah.
The annual gathering, scheduled for...
Meron commission calls for Israeli Police Chief to resign
In its findings published on Wednesday, the State Commission of Inquiry into the 2021 Meron disaster found multiple Israeli officials responsible for the tragedy, including Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On April 30, 2021, 45 Israelis...
Israeli minister visits Druze security guard who was attacked at Mount Meron
Israel’s Heritage Minister Amihai Eliyahu on Tuesday visited the Israeli Druze security guard whose vicious beating by Jewish youth at Mount Meron on the Saturday before Lag B’Omer was caught on security cameras.
“I came on behalf of the...
130,000 worshippers arrive at subdued Mount Meron Lag B’Omer celebrations
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...
Israel celebrates Lag B’Omer with thousands in Meron amid extra precautions
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...
Families of Mount Meron stampede victims seek millions in damages
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...
Work continues at Meron to prepare for Lag B’Omer
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...
Former Israeli Supreme Court president Miriam Naor dies at 74
Former president of Israel’s Supreme Court, Justice (ret.) Miriam Naor, passed away on Monday at the age of 74.
Naor was appointed head of the committee charged with probing the Mount Meron stampede last autumn.
Naor was born...
On Tisha B’Av, mourning incomparable loss, working on increased unity
Why is Tisha B’Av the saddest day of the Jewish year?
Eerily, not only were both of the holy temples in Jerusalem destroyed on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av (the first...
A year with too much to mourn
It may have been discouraging, but the dismal turnout for a national rally that was supposed to bring Jews together against anti-Semitism was also an appropriate reminder of the greatest challenge facing them. A...