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

14-Day news roundup: Meron tragedy

Israeli news highlights from the past two weeks.

MAY 12, 2021BySTEVE LINDE
The bodies of the victims of the tragedy at Mount Meron on Lag Ba'omer.

Mount Meron: Understanding the Lag Ba'omer calamity

The holiday is meant to represent the move from sorrow to joy. That’s why the Meron disaster is so ironically tragic.

MAY 12, 2021BySTEVE LINDE
An illustration of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai (circa 80-160)

Letters to the Editor May 12, 2021: An Ilhan wind blows

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

MAY 11, 2021ByLETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Letters

Mount Meron: The writing was on the wall

The Jerusalem Post Podcast Episode 13 with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov.

MAY 9, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
YA’ACOV LITZMAN speaks to a man during the Lag Ba’omer celebration on Mount Meron last Thursday.

After Meron, Israel needs a culture of true accountability - editorial

Zero people have had anything happen to them despite 45 people losing their lives in the greatest civilian tragedy in Israel’s 73-year history. Zero.

MAY 8, 2021ByJPOST EDITORIAL
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.

One week after Mount Meron, Chief of Police discusses the tragedy

In a conversation with N12, Kobi Shabtai recounts why he decided not to call for a commission of inquiry • The Police knew there were dangers and weaknesses, but couldn't do anything about it.

MAY 8, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
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.

Mount Meron disaster: Behind the scenes of the Abu Kir investigation

HEALTH AFFAIRS: ‘They came from a big festival and suddenly, death’

MAY 8, 2021ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
NEXT OF KIN of the victims of last week’s tragedy at Mount Meron arrive at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute in Tel Aviv to identify the bodies of their loved ones.

Meron tragedy throws up questions of faith

And the most pervasive question of all: Why did God allow this to happen?

MAY 7, 2021BySTEWART WEISS
PEOPLE CELEBRATE the lighting of a bonfire on Mount Meron during Lag Ba’omer last month.

Senator Chuck Schumer to Meron mourners: 'I have deep faith in Hashem'

The families of the victims sitted for the week of shiva, the Jewish rituals of mourning during which the bereaved receives visits and attentions in the memory of the lost ones.

MAY 7, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Sen. Chuck Schumer at a news briefing with new Democratic senators at the US Capitol, Jan. 21, 2021.

The power of civic solidarity after tragedy to bring us together - opinion

The Arabs understand the pain of the ultra-Orthodox. They experience the same contempt from the police and the minister of public security.

MAY 7, 2021ByGHAIDA RINAWIE ZOABI
A CROWD at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv lights candles on Sunday for the 45 victims who died in a crush during Lag Ba’omer celebrations at Mount Meron.