What is Lag BaOmer and can you light a bonfire this year?
Israel's annual Lag BaOmer celebrations will begin Thursday evening, May 15, but will proceed without their most recognizable tradition as ...
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Celebrating Lag B'Omer during wartime: How religious Jews are coping
The government moved the annual pilgrimage from Mount Meron to east Jerusalem due to fear of Hezbollah rocket attack.
Western Wall authority begins work on bridge at risk of collapse
Warnings by experts on the tenuous state of the Mughrabi Bridge prompt the Western Wall Heritage Foundation to begin partial ...
Families of Meron victims sue authority responsible for site
Relatives file a $15 million lawsuit against the National Center For Development Of The Holy Places in charge of the ...
Families of Meron stampede victims vow to fight cover-up attempts
"Our conscience will not be eased until we have done everything to ensure that other people's worlds will not be ...
Gov't proposes compensation for families of Meron stampede victims
Families who lost loved ones could be allocated up to 130,000 per casualty. Head of National Insurance Institute points to ...
'If your conscience is clear, there's no reason to resign,' public security minister says
Amir Ohana, who has been criticized for saying he is responsible for, but not guilty of Mount Meron tragedy, says, ...
Haredi sage: After Meron disaster, women should dress more modestly
In the aftermath of the Lag B'Omer tragedy that killed 45, Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky also issued instructions to study Torah ...
AG: Provisional government can launch state probe into Meron disaster
"After the period of mourning is over, we will examine in an orderly, thorough and responsible fashion every matter that ...
Justice minister calls for state commission of inquiry into Mt. Meron disaster
As Police Internal Investigations Department readies to collect officers' testimony on Lag B'Omer stampede, Justice Minister Benny Gantz demands state ...