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Recriminations intensify after deadly Israel stampede By Patrick Kingsley New York Times,Updated May 1, 2021, 4:21 p.m. Email to a Friend Candles flickered by an Israeli flag during a vigil in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday, a day after a deadly stampede killed 45 people in a northern Jewish pilgrimage town.JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images MOUNT MERON, Israel — Demands for accountability after a disaster that left 45 people dead at a holy site in northern Israel mounted Saturday as questions swirled about the culpability of the government, religious leaders and the police. The stamp...

By The New York Times The attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, tasked an independent watchdog that investigates claims of police wrongdoing with assessing accusations of police negligence in the buildup to the disaster. But on Saturday, Kan, the state-run broadcaster, said that the watchdog was reluctant to oversee the investigation because of the roles played by other officials and bodies beyond the police. Image At the scene of the stampede on Friday. Hundreds of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews visit Mount Meron each spring for the festival of Lag b’Omer.Credit...Amit Elkayam for The Ne...