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Some 20,000 people streamed down a narrow walkway between two walls during the event. On the ground was slick metal flooring, which caused some people to fall underfoot during the rush for the exit. צפיפות בלתי נתפסת: תיעוד הרגעים לפני האסון בהר מירון. פינוי הנפגעים טרם הסתיים@rubih67pic.twitter.com/a6iiK2NPl1 Witnesses and survivors described the horror. “We were going in to see the bonfire lighting, suddenly there was a wave coming out. Our bodies were swept along by themselves. People were thrown up in the air, others were c...

In one of the worst peacetime tragedies in Israel, at least 44 people were crushed to death and about 150 others injured in a stampede overnight at an overcrowded Jewish religious gathering in the country's north attended by tens of thousands of people flouting the coronavirus-related restrictions. The mass gathering was organised to celebrate the Lag B'Omer, an annual religious holiday marked with all-night bonfires, prayer and dancing, at Mount Meron. The town is the site of the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century sage, and is considered to be one of the holiest sites in th...

Hundreds of Haredim at a funeral in Jerusalem for one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) In a sign of mourning for one who lost a relative, a man cuts the shirt of the four-year-old son of Yehuda Leib Rubin who died in Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Hundreds attend the Jerusalem funeral of David Krauss in Jerusalem, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90) Israeli rescue forces and police near a mass fatality scene during a gathering marking the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer on Mt. M...

Israeli medic: Nearly 40 people killed in stampede at religious festival Updated Apr 29, 2021; Posted Apr 29, 2021 Israeli security officials and rescuers carry a body of a victim who died during a Lag Ba'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo)AP Facebook Share Jerusalem — A stampede broke out early Friday at a Jewish religious festival attended by tens of thousands of people in northern Israel, killing nearly 40 people and leaving some 150 hospitalized, medical officials said. The stampede, one of the deadliest civilian disasters in Israeli h...

Eli Beer, head of the Hatzalah rescue services organization, says children were trampled during the stampede. “Unfortunately, we found small children trampled there, and we performed CPR on children. We were able to save some of them. We need to wake up. I’m appalled at the amount of people who were allowed in,” Beer says. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel I’ll tell you the truth: Life here in Israel isn’t always easy. But it's full of beauty and meaning. I'm proud to work at The Times of Israel alongside colleagues who pour their hearts into their work day in, day out...