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The state forensic center still has not identified two of the 45 bodies of those killed in the stampede during Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron, according to Channel 13 news.
The center is working to find the families of the two anonymous victims, the network says, adding that no one has come to claim them. Greetings from the Vaccination Nation
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Illustrative: El Al planes, parked at the Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Fighter jets were summoned to accompany an El Al plane over Greece on Friday after a bomb threat was reported mid-flight, according to a television report.
Flight LY02 departed for Tel Aviv from New York on Thursday afternoon. After takeoff, US authorities received a phone call warning there was a bomb on the plane, Channel 12 reported on Saturday.
“I’m telling you there’s a bomb on the plane,” the caller said.
Though the warning was considered dubious, the pilot, Israeli security agencies, and the countries whose airspace was on the flight path were alerted, the report said.
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Hundreds of people attend the burial of Mount Meron disaster victim Yedidya Fogel, 22, as the series of funerals for the 45 victims of the deadly stampede on Lag B’Omer continues after Shabbat.
Yedidya Fogel, 22, of Jerusalem, who was killed during the stampede at Mt. Meron on April 30, 2021. (courtesy)
Hundreds also take part in the funeral in Ramle for Yosef Mastorov, 17, whose father says in a eulogy that “we had a dream to see him [get married] under the chuppah, with his brothers and sisters.”
The father adds: “He told me, ‘I’m going to Meron.’
“I said, ‘Why do you need to go there?’
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The deputy commander of the police’s coastal district tells Channel 12 that the source of the failure that led to yesterday’s tragedy at Mount Meron is the lack of regulation over religious events.
According to Ofer Shomer, police are barred from such regulation at religious sites and events due to pushback from prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis, some of whom reject the authority of the state. Greetings from the Vaccination Nation
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