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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...

Senior Israel Police figures also said they have no plans to resign following the stampede at Mount Meron on Lag Ba'omer, which left at least 45 people dead, as probe set to commence

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...

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44 killed in crush at Meron The Lag Ba'Omer festivities at Meron ended in disaster, with over 150 people injured besides the fatalities. Disaster has overtaken the annual Lag Ba'Omer festivities at Meron in northern Israel. 44 people were crushed to death last night at the ceremony at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yohai on Mount Meron. More than 150 people were injured, eighteen of them severely. The Ministry of Religious Services has announced that the incident is over, and has called on the public not to come to Meron. The incident reportedly occurred as a result of some people who were leav...