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Dozens killed at stampede in Israel during religious celebration At least 45 people were crushed to death during the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations at the Mount Meron site. Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather at the grave site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai at Mount Meron as they celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, marking the anniversary of the death of the Talmudic sage, approximately 1,900 years ago, Israel, April 29, 2021. - Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images April 30, 2021 At least 45 peopl...

Israel By Hamodia Staff Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:07 pm YERUSHALAYIM - Updated Thursday, April 29, 2021 at 7:07 pm Emergency personnel tending to injured in Meron. (Ichud Hatzalah) Over 150 people in Meron were injured with dozens of people succumbing to their injuries during the Lag BaOmer festivities. Approximate location of the tragedy. Ichud Hatzalah performed CPR on a number of students who were injured in the area where the Toldos Aharon Rebbe, shlita, was conducting a...

Unspent border wall funds will be rerouted back to military construction projects April 30 President Donald Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Ariz. The Defense Department is canceling border projects and rerouting funds back into DoD activities. (Evan Vucci/AP) The Pentagon announced Friday that it would cancel all of the border construction projects funded by the siphoning of money destined to to build military schools, training facilities and more. More than 100 proj...

Bodybags at the scene of the Mount Meron disaster, April 30, 2021 (Screenshot) However, neither of these two probes has the authority to investigate relevant ministers, including the ministers of public security, interior and religious affairs, and the prime minister himself, all of whom were involved in various meetings relating to preparations for the event. Both national Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai and Northern Command chief Shimon Lavi are set to be called to give testimony to the PIID...

Have you ever heard of Combined Joint Headquarters (CJHQ) Top End? Before you go racing to Google, it doesn’t exist! Yet Australia and its partners need such an arrangement. It’s time to leverage our strategic geography and make a bold commitment to maritime security and multilateral military cooperation by establishing just this kind of headquarters. At the very least, a CJHQ in northern Australia could help to coordinate humanitarian assistance and disaster responses in a region facing mo...

Ethnic Armed Groups Unite With Anti-Coup Protesters Against Myanmar Junta KNLA troops on Karen Martyrs’ Day in Karen State’s Papun District in August 2018. / The Irrawaddy 11.4k By The Irrawaddy 30 April 2021 In the month following the military’s Feb. 1 coup, many of Myanmar’s ethnic armed organizations (EAOs), which have been warring with the central government for decades, said they opposed the junta’s overthrowing of the democratically-elected civilian government. When the Myanma...

NEW DELHI: General M M Naravane on Tuesday visited eastern Ladakh to review the ground situation and operational preparedness in the high-altitude region, with China having refused so far to even complete the stalled troop disengagement at Gogra, Hot Springs and Demchok. The Army chief also visited the forbidding Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge region, where two soldiers from the Punjab Regiment died in an avalanche in sub-sector Haneef on Sunday. Gen Naravane, accompanied by Northern Command ch...

Brigadier General Phillip N. Frietze Brigadier General Phillip N. Frietze is currently serving as the Commanding General, 1st Marine Logistics Group.  He hails from Las Cruces, New Mexico and is a graduate of New Mexico State University. He was commissioned through the Officer Candidate Course Program in August 1991 and attended The Basic School, the Marine Corps Engineer Officer’s Course, the U.S. Army Engineer Officer’s Advanced Course, Marine Corps Command and Staff College, Joint Force...

The Army chief also visited the forbidding Siachen Glacier-Saltoro Ridge region, where two soldiers from the Punjab Regiment died in an avalanche in sub-sector Haneef on Sunday. NEW DELHI: General M M Naravane on Tuesday visited eastern Ladakh to review the ground situation and operational preparedness in the high-altitude region, with China having refused so far to even complete the stalled troop disengagement at Gogra, Hot Springs and Demchok. The Army chief also visited the forbidding Siach...

Army Chief Gen Naravane visits eastern Ladakh and Siachen SECTIONS Last Updated: Apr 27, 2021, 06:00 PM IST Share Synopsis The sources said Gen Naravane interacted with troops and complimented them for their steadfastness and high morale while being deployed in some of the harshest terrain, altitude and weather conditions. PTI General MM Naravane Army Chief Gen MM Naravane on Tuesday visited eastern Ladakh and Siachen and reviewed Indias operational preparedness in the strategically key sectors...