The ceremony was also live-streamed to allow friends and family overseas to participate.
Donny Morris, 19, of New Jersey, one of 45 people killed in the crush on Mount Meron during Lag B’Omer celebrations. (Courtesy)
Almost 70,000 people watched online.
“I have so many questions but little to no answers,” sobbed his mother Mirlana Morris, calling his death “a pain more than a mother can bear.”
“But what I do know for sure is that you were loved by so many,” she said.
“We all always knew how wonderful you were, but in the last 72 hours countless people reached out to me to say how you touched so many lives with your kindness and love,” she said.