British victim of Israel stampede: 24-year-old man from Manchester is named among the 45 people killed in crush amid claims Orthodox Jewish leaders put pressure on organisers NOT to limit numbers at festival
Insiders claimed there was political pressure on police to hold the event at any cost ahead of deadly crush
Reports say the head of Shas, a Haredi religious political party in Israel, asked there to be no limit of numbers
A total of 45 people were killed in the stampede at Mount Meron, Israel on Thursday, with at least 150 injured
Moshe Bergman, from Manchester,
First victims of Israeli festival crush identified as funerals got underway in keeping with Orthodox tradition
Dead include a singer from Canada, a nine-year-old boy and his brother, two Americans and a father-of-11
In total, 45 people were killed during Lag B Omer festivities at Mount Meron overnight - with authorities working to identify others as families and friends got separated in the crush
People whose loved ones went missing amid the disaster have launched desperate online appeal to find them
At least 150 people were wounded, some critically, amid the crush which is one of Israel s deadliest disasters
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Yehuda Lev Lubin in Jerusalem, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, where 45 people were crushed to death in Meron, northern Israel, April 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
JTA Long before COVID-19 arrived in Israel, devastating Israel’s Hasidic communities, the annual Lag B’Omer gathering at Mount Meron was a moment of release for Israel’s Orthodox Jews, a festive night marking the end of a religious period of mourning.
And this year, when that release was especially needed after a year of loss, it became yet another tragedy.
Thousands of Haredi Jews died in the pandemic. And on Thursday night, at least 45 more ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed in a stampede at Mount Meron, with dozens more injured.
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