Northern District chief Shimon Lavi showing Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana around the Mt. Meron site, May 16, 2022. Northern District Police Chief, Superintendent Shimon Lavi, announced his ...

Seeing bags of marshmallows in the supermarket stopped Michal Reit in her tracks. “That’s when it hit me: It will be a whole year,” said the American-born Israeli mother of six. Like Reit, observant ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of worshippers flocked to a Jewish holy site in northern Israel to light bonfires, pray and dance Wednesday under heavy police presence, a year after a stampede there left ...

(The Media Line) New legislation requiring crowd management at mass gatherings could prevent a tragedy similar to the one at Mount Meron from recurring, crowd control experts say. Some 45 people were ...

Rabbi Moshe Ratta lighting a bonfire at the Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai) gravesite in Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer, March 26, 2022. It’s two days before the great Lag B’Omer celebration on Mt. Meron, ...

(JTA) — A 21-year-old yeshiva student from Argentina was among the 45 people to die in the Lag b’Omer disaster in Israel last week. Abraham Daniel Embon attended Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem.

First came the tragedy, then a search for who to blame. Days after a deadly stampede resulted in the deaths of 45 people at a religious festival in northern Israel, many are now asking who is at fault ...

It’s been a year since one of the most harrowing civilian tragedies ever experienced in Israel — the stampede and subsequent “crush” on Mount Meron that killed 45 people celebrating Lag B’Omer. I was ...

Families started burying the victims of the Lag b’Omer catastrophe at Meron. Israel radio reported that families had buried by Sunday midday 41 of the 45 dead. They were killed after a crowd of tens ...

Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday after 45 people were killed and some 150 others injured in a ...

(AP) — This year's Lag BaOmer holiday festivities at Mount Meron are overshadowed by last year's deaths, the largest civilian disaster in the country's history. JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of ...