A baby boy was born overnight Thursday to the widow of Rabbi Yosef Greenbaum, one of the 45 victims of the Meron tragedy.
Greenbaum, 22, was from Haifa and a member of the Vizhnitz Hassidic dynasty.
The baby, who was delivered at Samson Assuta Ashdod Hospital, is expected to be named in his father’s honor.
Forty-five people were killed and more than 120 injured during a crowd crush on Mount Meron last month.
Tens of thousands of Israelis had gathered at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai for a Lag Ba’omer celebration. The situation went from joy to sadness at around 1 a.m., when thousands of participants moving through one of the cave’s walkways, which was on an incline, slipped and fell. They smashed into people below them, who then fell on those below them, resulting in the crush.
The incident remains under investigation. Reports of prior warnings that structural changes were needed at the site for safety reasons surfaced after the tragedy.