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Police push back Jews who tried to enter the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer, in Meron. May 26, 2024.

Lag Ba'Omer: Police work to remove pilgrims from Mount Meron amid rocket threat

Rabbi Elimelech Biderman with his followers celebrate the jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer, in Meron. May 9, 2023

Mount Meron Lag Ba'Omer pilgrimage cancelled due to ongoing Hezbollah conflict

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Letters to the editor, March 11, 2024: Freedom of navigation

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Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir at a special committee in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2022.

Ben-Gvir: Police can't deal with Temple Mount traffic, cabinet must convene

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Mourners gather at a funeral for one of the victims of the 45 deceased of the Mount Meron tragedy, Lag Ba'omer, 2021.

Meron Disaster Commission finds Netanyahu, police, and officials responsible for catastrophe

By MICHAEL STARR

On shift at the Hatzor Air Force Base.

Hezbollah rocket strikes Israeli air control base in North, IDF confirms

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

DAVID KAHN, grand rabbi of the Toldos Aharon hassidic dynasty, lights a bonfire during Lag Ba’omer celebrations on Mount Meron in May 2019.

New police station opens on Mount Meron just before Lag Ba’omer

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Children and their parents gather around a bonfire to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Lag Baomer, on May 8, 2023, in Tel Aviv.

Lag Ba'omer: Tens of thousands ascend Mount Meron

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

People visit Meron, in northern Israel, before of the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba'Omer on May 7, 2023

Two years after disaster, Israel Police prepare for Meron pilgrimage

By MICHAEL STARR

DAVID KAHN, grand rabbi of the Toldos Aharon hassidic dynasty, lights a bonfire during Lag Ba’omer celebrations on Mount Meron in May 2019.

Idolatry: The Jewish version

By AMOTZ ASA-EL

Not only in Meron: Thousands will participate in Rabbi Pinto’s bonfire in Ashdod

By Mark Fish

The memorial for the victims of the Mount Meron tragedy was found destroyed on the ground, July 14, 2021

First two foreign lawsuits over Meron disaster demand 3.5 million shekels each

By MICHAEL STARR

Rabbi Eliezer Berland covered with a prayer shawl arrives for a court hearing arrives for a police investigation at a police station in Jerusalem, November 2, 2021.

Israeli sex offender rabbi should be banned from Lag Ba'omer event - NGO

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

FUNERAL FOR brothers Yosef David Elhadar and Moshe Mordechai Elhadar (opposite, far right), killed in the Meron tragedy; flames of remembrance for 45 victims; both May 2, 2021.

Almost 2 years after tragedy, Meron celebrations regulated under new law

By MICHAEL STARR

Meir Porush, Minister of Jerusalem and Israel's Traditions, March 27, 2019.

Meron disaster victims demand MK Porush be reinstated as Meron celebration supervisor

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Jewish worshippers sing and dance as they stand on tribunes at the Lag Ba’omer event on Mount Meron on April 29.

Netanyahu, prepare now to ensure Israeli Lag Ba'omer safety - Meron panel

By MICHAEL STARR