News guidelines were announced on Sunday night that only up to 1,500 people would be permitted to gather in the communities in the vicinity of Mount Meron: Safsofa, Or HaGanuz, Bar Yochai, and Meron.

A stampede at a Jewish religious gathering in northern Israel killed at least 44 people and injured some 150 others early Friday, medical officials said, in one of the country's deadliest civilian ...

Lag BaOmer holiday celebrations at Mount Meron will be held with symbolic participation only next Tuesday, according to the government and the IDF Home Front Command, amid security concerns and ...

The fires of Lag Ba’omer will burn again on the slopes of Meron. What matters is that when they do, they come back to a country that chose, at the right moment, to be careful. There is no easy way to ...

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‘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 ...

The Movement for Quality Government has appealed to the Ministry of Jerusalem and Heritage, demanding that Rabbi Eliezer Berland and members of the Shuvu Banim community be barred from participating ...