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Mt. Meron Catstrophe, April 30, 2021.
45 Jewish souls gone. Trampled to death last night in Meron. Among them an American student from New Jersey that was a classmate of my grandson Mordechai. Both of whom â together with many other American students have been learning in Shalavim this year.
The students and faculty there are beside themselves. As Iâm sure the families and friends of all the deceased and injured are. This Lag Bâomer is a sad day in Israel rather than the happy one it is supposed to be. Instead of celebrating the end of a plague that killed thousands of Rabi Akivaâs students, we are now mourning the death of 45 devoutly religious Jews. Who simply wanted to see the spectacle of the yearly bonfire in Meron on this day. A custom widely celebrated – most spectacularly in Meron.