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Israel: At least 44 killed in stampede at religious festival
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Closed last year due to coronavirus restrictions, this year’s pilgrimage was the largest public gathering since the pandemic began.
A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, with rescue workers facing chaotic crowds while trying to evacuate the injured.
The disaster occurred in Meron at the site of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Talmudic sage, where Jews flock to mark the Lag BaOmer holiday.
Closed last year due to coronavirus restrictions, this year’s pilgrimage was the largest public gathering since the pandemic began.
At least 44 dead in Israel Jewish pilgrimage disaster Updated
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A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at
least 44 people in northern Israel on Friday, blackening the country s largest
Covid-era gathering.
AFP
The nighttime disaster struck after pilgrims thronged to Meron at the site
of the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century Talmudic sage,
where mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews mark the Lag BaOmer holiday.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was helicoptered in to the scene,
tweeted that the Mount Meron disaster was one of the worst to
befall the State of Israel since its foundation seven decades ago.
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