âItâs unfathomableâ: Israel mourns after deadly crush at religious festival
Mourners carry the body of Rabbi Eliezer Goldberg, who died during Lag BâOmer celebrations at Mount Meron in northern Israel, at his funeral in Jerusalem. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
Mourners carry the body of Rabbi Eliezer Goldberg, who died during Lag BâOmer celebrations at Mount Meron in northern Israel, at his funeral in Jerusalem. Photograph: Ariel Schalit/AP
People tell of unfolding horror at Mount Meron as inquiry begins into one of the countryâs worst peacetime disasters
Fri 30 Apr 2021 12.12 EDT
Last modified on Sat 1 May 2021 10.01 EDT
Phones of the dead light up with desperate calls as Israeli festival turns into night of horror
At least 45 Jewish worshippers killed in tunnel stampede that is likely to be recorded as Israel’s worst peacetime disaster
30 April 2021 • 5:05pm
A man grieves at the funeral of Eliezer Goldberg, who died in Thursday s stampede
Credit: Menahem Kahana/AFP
In a tunnel at Mount Meron lies a twisted sheet of metal and a body bag, the last remaining signs of the disaster that befell Jewish worshippers in the early hours of Friday morning.
The body bag is empty, but the metal sheet has been ripped off the tunnel wall and is covered in dents, a testament to the struggle of those crushed to death.