Hundreds of buses stretched over miles of winding road were ferrying thousands of worshipers off Mount Meron in northern Israel on Friday after 45 people were killed and some 150 others injured in a ...

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of one of those who died in a stampede during the celebration of Lag Ba’Omer at the Jewish Orthodox pilgrimage site of Mount Meron on April 30, 2021. (Ilia ...

The ramp where 45 people were crushed to death on Israel's Mount Meron on April 30 looked as though it was built without permission and made too shoddily, a former mayor of a nearby village said.

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of worshippers flocked to a Jewish holy site in northern Israel to light bonfires, pray and dance Wednesday under heavy police presence, a year after a stampede there left ...

As the Shabbat drew to a close in Israel, funerals for the victims of Friday's crush at Mount Meron have resumed -- and so have the recriminations over the mountaintop disaster that killed 45 people, ...

Seeing bags of marshmallows in the supermarket stopped Michal Reit in her tracks. “That’s when it hit me: It will be a whole year,” said the American-born Israeli mother of six. Like Reit, observant ...

Soon after the Lag B’Omer tragedy on Mount Meron, the prominent Haredi rabbi Chaim Kanievsky said that women needed to more strictly adhere to laws of modesty to help “rectify the divine decree.” His ...

Northern District chief Shimon Lavi showing Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana around the Mt. Meron site, May 16, 2022. Northern District Police Chief, Superintendent Shimon Lavi, announced his ...

Ita Silberman (80) was born in Tzfat. Her family arrived from Ukraine in the 16 th Century when Isaac Luria (HaARI) drew many Jews from Spain and other parts of Europe. Ita’s grandfather, who features ...

JERUSALEM — An Israeli government commission investigating a deadly accident at a Jewish pilgrimage site in April held its first day of hearings Sunday, almost four months after the stampede at Mt.

This article first appeared on Kveller. On Thursday evening, as I was just about to close my computer, I saw the news alert from The New York Times: “Breaking News: At least 15 people are dead and ...