At least four U.S. citizens and one Argentine are among the 45 victims of the deadly stampede during Lag Ba’omer festivities in northern Israel overnight Thursday, according to the Foreign Ministry.

Israel’s largest religious festival turned into its largest peacetime tragedy late Thursday night, as 45 celebrants were crushed to death, and dozens more were injured, under the feet of fellow ...

JERUSALEM -- The holiday of Lag BaOmer is one of the happiest days on the calendar for Israel's ultra-Orthodox community - a time of mass celebrations in honor of a revered sage. But in a split second ...

(JTA) — A 21-year-old yeshiva student from Argentina was among the 45 people to die in the Lag b’Omer disaster in Israel last week. Abraham Daniel Embon attended Yeshiva Heichal Yitzchak in Jerusalem.

Seeing bags of marshmallows in the supermarket stopped Michal Reit in her tracks. “That’s when it hit me: It will be a whole year,” said the American-born Israeli mother of six. Like Reit, observant ...

Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of one of those who died in a stampede during the celebration of Lag Ba’Omer at the Jewish Orthodox pilgrimage site of Mount Meron on April 30, 2021. (Ilia ...

(JTA) — Families started burying the victims of the Lag b’Omer catastrophe at Meron. Israel radio reported that families had buried by Sunday midday 41 of the 45 dead. They were killed after a crowd ...

Rabbi Moshe Ratta lighting a bonfire at the Rashbi (Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai) gravesite in Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer, March 26, 2022. It’s two days before the great Lag B’Omer celebration on Mt. Meron, ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Thousands of worshippers flocked to a Jewish holy site in northern Israel to light bonfires, pray and dance Wednesday under heavy police presence, a year after a stampede there left ...

The deaths of 45 pilgrims at a Jewish holy site prompted a wave of national unity, but there were also growing calls for accountability. By Patrick Kingsley MOUNT MERON, Israel — Demands for ...

Families started burying the victims of the Lag b’Omer catastrophe at Meron. Israel radio reported that families had buried by Sunday midday 41 of the 45 dead. They were killed after a crowd of tens ...