Posts Tagged: Mount Meron disaster
The Angel of Death at Mount Meron
JNS.org – I felt like the angel of death last year at Mount Meron, when the annual Lag B’Omer festival turned into a disaster —...
Israel Tightens Entry Rules at Mount Meron Lag B’Omer Festival, One Year After Tragedy
A year after the disaster at Israel’s Mount Meron that saw 45 people trampled to death, Israeli police forces rolled out new safety protocols on...
Israel: Formation of State Inquiry into Mount Meron Disaster Cabinet Vote on Sunday
i24 News – The Israeli government will meet on Sunday with an important first decision - the formation of a state commission of inquiry into...
The Rioters Do Not Represent All Israeli Arabs
JNS.org - The instigators of the violent riots across Israel in recent days do not represent Israel’s Arab society. They are the extremists among us,...
Mount Meron: A Personal Account
JNS.org - As ecstatic songs rang through the hills, I tried to enter the stadium around the grave of the Mishnaic sage and spiritual luminary,...
Can a Disaster Breed Jewish Unity or Widen the Communal Breach?
JNS.org - There is nothing positive to be gleaned from an event that led to the deaths of 45 Jews and injuring of 150 others....
Mount Meron and Israel’s Paradoxical Nature
JNS.org - On Saturday night, as Tel Aviv’s City Hall lit up with the image of the Israeli flag to commemorate the dozens killed and...
Who’s Responsible for the Meron Disaster?
JNS.org - Israel’s largest religious festival turned into its largest peacetime tragedy late Thursday night, as 45 celebrants were crushed to death, and dozens more...
‘A Mensch of the Highest Order’: Thousands of Mourners Pay Tribute to Victims of Lag B’Omer Stampede
As Israel marked a national day of mourning on Sunday to commemorate the Mount Meron stampede tragedy, which occurred on the eve of Lag B’Omer,...
Magen David Adom Before Mount Meron Tragedy: ‘Every Year We Came Back With a Sigh of Relief No Disaster Happened’
Volunteers at Israel’s national ambulance and disaster-relief organization, Magen David Adom — who were the first to come to the rescue at the mass-casualty incident,...
Report: Netanyahu Lawyer to Represent Victims’ Families of Mount Meron Disaster
i24 News - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's criminal defense attorney Amit Hadad will represent the families of the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy,...
Israelis Make More Than 2,200 Blood Donations to Help Meron Victims
JNS.org - Following the tragedy at Israel’s Mount Meron on Thursday night in which 45 people were killed and many more injured, blood donation sites...
Chief Rabbi Calls for State to Assume Responsibility for Mt. Meron Site in Wake of Disaster
i24 News - In the midst of preparing for a national day of mourning for the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy, Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief...
Israel Observes Day of Mourning for Religious Festival Dead
Israel observed a day of mourning on Sunday for 45 people crushed to death at a Jewish religious festival, with flags lowered to half-staff and...
