Last June, the government set up a commission of inquiry to probe last year’s disaster but it has yet to report its findings. On Tuesday, police said they had seized knives and hammers from an “extremist ultra-Orthodox faction” which allegedly intended to sabotage communications infrastructure at the site. Israel is observing a day of mourning for the 45 people crushed to death at a Jewish religious festival - as questions are raised about how the disaster happened. Police said they would secure all access roads to the site, as well as the surrounding forest, to prevent unauthorized entries breaking the cap on numbers.
Police said they would deploy mounted officers, drones and a helicopter to patrol the site. Some 8,000 officers will be on hand to maintain order.
Hundreds of medical workers will be there “in light of last year’s horrible disaster,” it added. The stampede happened at the celebrations of Lag B’Omer at Mount Meron, the first legal mass religious gathering since Israel lifted Covid restrictions. Israel’s Magen David Adom emergency service said that it is expecting hundreds of thousands of worshippers at Mount Meron on Wednesday. AT least 45 people were killed and 150 injured when they were crushed at a crowded annual religious festival in northern Israel. Tickets must also be acquired in advance. On April 30 last year, a stampede broke out in the male section of the gender-divided site as the size of the crowd turned a narrow passageway into a deadly choke-point.Īt least 16 children were among those trampled to death.īennett urged worshippers to follow new rules put in place for the event.Īmong those is a cap of 16,000 pilgrims allowed at the site at any given moment. The Mount Meron pilgrimage occurs on the Lag BaOmer holiday, when mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews throng the site of the tomb of revered second century rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
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