Ministers expected to approve ban on bonfires for Lag B’Omer

Cabinet ministers are expected to approve restrictions today for the coming Lag B’Omer holiday.

The cabinet is expected not to declare nationwide closures for the holiday, but will ban the traditional lighting of bonfires.

A small number of bonfires may be specifically approved for religious purposes at Mt. Meron in the country’s north.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews play near a bonfire during Lag B’Omer celebrations in Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood on May 2, 2018. (Dario Sanchez/Flash90)

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