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As news began to filter through that a stampede occurred and there were dozens of injuries, none of us could ever have imagined what we were about to wake up to last Friday morning – Lag B’Omer – the worst civilian disaster in Israeli history.
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Police officer Rami Alwan hugs Shmuel Hayut, whom he saved at Meron. Father Avigdor Hayut sites to the left at their home in Bnei Brak, May 3, 2021 (Flash90)
A man was reunited on Monday with the police officer who saved him and his son last week at Mount Meron when the officer paid a visit to their Bnei Brak home, where they were mourning a second son who was killed in the tragedy.
Avigdor Hayut told Rami Alwan that he wanted to thank him from the bottom of his heart for saving his child, paraphrasing the Talmudic phrase that “he who saves a life, saves the world.”
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