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How Bibi's judicial reform was stopped in its tracks

Get email notification for articles from Amos Harel Follow May. 2, 2021 5:59 AM The Lag Ba’omer hillula that ended in mass casualties on Mount Meron was not the only large gathering that was scheduled to take place in the Galilee last week. Tens of thousands of members of Israel’s Druze community had planned to visit the grave of Nabi Shuaib in Kfar Hittim on April 25, for the Habi Shuaib festival. But the Druze leadership canceled the pilgrimage in the wake of heavy pressure from the commander of the Israel Police Northern District, Maj. Gen. Shimon Lavi, and Israel’s coronavirus czar...

Get email notification for articles from Josh Breiner Follow May. 1, 2021 11:54 PM At noon on Friday, nothing at the foot of the stairs where the Mount Meron tragedy happened suggested that less than 12 hours earlier, 45 people had been crushed to death. All that was left in the place that had become a death trap were dozens of empty plastic bottles, some papers and other trash. “Everyone suffocated to death, no one bled,” Netanel Knafo, one of the first medics to reach the scene, told the curious onlookers who had gathered around him. “No one understood the scale of the disaster at fi...

What we know at the end of a week of intense coalition talks between party leaders

Apr. 30, 2021 7:26 AM Witnesses who were at Mount Meron at the time of the deadly stampede that left 44 dead and over 150 injured recounted the horror of what was meant to be a festive and jovial Lag Ba'Omer celebration.  Tens of thousands of people participated Thursday in the annual Lag Ba'omer festivities at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, making it the largest event held in Israel since the coronavirus pandemic broke out last year. Since the site was so densely attended, search and rescue authorities say they struggled to evacuate trapped people. The stampede was caused after some...