The Lag Ba’Omer celebrations across Israel on Wednesday night ended without significant incidents or injuries, a year after 45 people were crushed to death during the main event on Mount Meron.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compound 89 in Meron is seen ahead of next week's Lag BaOmer celebrations, as police conduct an inspection tour around the tomb ...

‘We are living in a very difficult time,” says Dubi Weissenstern, CEO of ZAKA. “We simply don’t understand what’s happening.” Over the past six years, ZAKA, Israel’s emergency response service that ...

It’s been a year since one of the most harrowing civilian tragedies ever experienced in Israel — the stampede and subsequent “crush” on Mount Meron that killed 45 people celebrating Lag B’Omer. I was ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived on Friday afternoon to donate blood at Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem, as part of the national effort to obtain blood donations following the disaster in ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, minister Amir Ohana and police chief Yaakov Shabtai, at the Mount Meron site — Ronen ZVULUN A probe into Israel's worst civilian disaster on Wednesday found ...

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 ...