Simcha Bunim Diskind News Today

It has been one year since the tragic events on Mount Meron. How have we been dealing with the fallout, and what meaningful changes have been made to prevent a future catastrophe?

Get email notification for articles from Sam Sokol Follow May. 3, 2021 12:24 PM A palpable sense of sadness enveloped Beit Shemesh over the weekend, with residents dealing with the emotional fallout of Friday’s deadly stampede during the annual Lag Ba’omer pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yochai. Six of the 45 people killed in the disaster at Mount Meron came from the city’s growing ultra-Orthodox community, which is now struggling to make sense of the sudden loss of life durin...

rebbe lit the medurah, and everybody burst into singing and dancing. Im sobbing now, remembering those last happy moments. After 20 minutes or so, I heard them calling "Hatzalah!" That’s a regular occurrence in this crowded space, and after a moment the music and signing and dancing resumed. But then it was "Hatzalah!" again, directing Hatzalah to the exact place where they were needed. Now I was curious, but I was also hungry, and went to eat something. I came back half an hour later... on...

Meron victims: Torah prodigy, singer from Montreal and father of two-week-old baby Family members frantically attempted to contact their loved ones who were at Meron, not knowing if they were among the dead and injured; relatives of some victims learned of their loss when names of casualties began to appear on WhatsApp Ynet | Published: 04.30.21 , 15:20 Simcha Bunim Diskind was considered a brilliant Torah scholar and prodigy in his yeshiva. The 23-year-old member of the Ger Hassidic Dynasty...