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Thursday, May 7, 2015
From the Liveblog of
Thursday, May 7, 2015
Hundreds of thousands of people at Mt. Meron
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice say hundreds of thousands of people made a pilgrimage to the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai on Mount Meron since the beginning of Lag B’Omer on Wednesday.
According to Israel Radio, parking lots in Carmiel and Hatzor, near the site in the north of Israel, are filled to capacity. Thousands of police officers, security guards and paramedics have been deployed. All roads leading to Mount Meron have by now been closed to traffic by private vehicles.
No unusual occurrences have been reported so far.
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