Mount Meron

High Court rejects petition to prevent convicted sex offender Berland from lighting Meron torch

The MQG, along with haredi activist Tzippy Lavi and five other women's rights groups, had requested that the court cancel the permit granted to the sect to light the fire.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN, ELI ASHKENAZI, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Rabbi Eliezer Berland and Rabbi Ofer Erez
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.

Ministers outraged after police seen shoving elderly man to ground at Mount Meron

Since October 7th, Hezbollah has fired dozens of rockets toward the Mount Meron area on several occasions.

|ByTZVI JOFFRE
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

Every year, hundreds of thousands of people head to Mount Meron to mark Lag Ba'Omer.

|ByTZVI JOFFRE
Letters

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

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

|ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Mount Meron tragedy: Night of unity, respect, helping others - opinion

Our students never blamed the police or the hassidim. They showed concern for everyone.

MAY 7, 2021ByJEFF SEIDEL
United Hatzalah medics work to help injured at Meron, April 30, 2021

Israeli couple to donate NIS 1 million to families of Meron victims

Each of the families will receive about 18,000 NIS.

MAY 7, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Nacht family, whose fund will be donating to the families of the Meron disaster

Is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai really buried at Meron? It’s complicated

On one hand some rock cut burials dating back to the time of the Mishna are present in Meron. On the other, no archaeological evidence linking them to the Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai was ever found.

MAY 7, 2021ByROSSELLA TERCATIN
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man prays outside the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on Mt. Meron in northern Israel on May 6, 2020

Olmert to 'Post': Ohana, Netanyahu responsible and guilty for Meron

When the investigation process is completed, those responsible will be identified. No one will be held criminally liable.

MAY 7, 2021ByEHUD OLMERT
PUBLIC SECURITY MINISTER Amir Ohana – at celebrations on Mount Meron last month – declared himself responsible, but not guilty for the tragedy there.

The Mount Meron tragedy is the ultra-Orthodox's Chernobyl disaster

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Who will be part of the commission of inquiry, what will they investigate, what will it find and what will these findings mean?

MAY 6, 2021ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Ultra-Orthodox Jews look at stairs with waste on it in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, April 30, 2021.

Meron commission of inquiry should restore state's authority - opinion

The Mount Meron disaster as a lesson in absent governance

MAY 6, 2021ByYEDIDIA STERN, HAIM ZICHERMAN
YA’ACOV LITZMAN speaks to a man during the Lag Ba’omer celebration on Mount Meron last Thursday.

Down with Deri: The Shas leader must be shamed out of politics - opinion

The Meron misfortune reflects a larger problem that Israel has with haredi politics, in which Arye Deri is a key culprit.

MAY 6, 2021ByDAVID M. WEINBERG
INTERIOR MINISTER Arye Deri attends the funeral of Abraham Ambon, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, in Jerusalem on Monday.

Grapevine May 7, 2021: A Dickensian iftar

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 6, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN with Egyptian Ambassador Khaled Azmi, who was one of the guests at the iftar dinner hosted by Rivlin.

My Word: Learning from the Meron disaster

There was something biblical about both the scope and nature of the disaster that took the lives of 45 people in the early hours of Friday morning, April 30.

MAY 6, 2021ByLIAT COLLINS
Rabbi Avigdor HAYUT and his son Shmuel meet the Bedouin police officer, Rami Alwan, who helped save them at Mount Meron. The family was sitting shiva for Yedidyia, 13, who died in the disaster.

Seeing the news in Israel from the outside - opinion

How many more rockets, riots, elections and stampedes can someone endure?

MAY 6, 2021ByDAVID BRINN
MEMORIALIZING THE 45 victims killed in the Meron stampede, at Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on May 2