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What Matters Most On Saturday, May 1, 2021

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Hats and broken glasses are seen at the bottom of a stairway leading from a narrow walkway where a fatal crush occurred at the site of the Mt. Meron disaster in northern Israel, Friday, April 30, 2021 (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

Deri urged: Anyone who wants to come, should be allowed to

After tragedy, reports emerge that politicians pressed not to limit Meron event

Following initial horror over crush that killed 45, blame game begins between various authorities and officials who planned, approved and oversaw mass festivities at holy site

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Internal Security Minister Amir Ohana (R) visit the site of an overnight fatal crush during a religious gathering at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, on April 30, 2021. (Ronen ZVULUN / POOL / AFP)

Pressure expected for full state inquiry into responsibility for Meron disaster

Outgoing Northern District Commander Shimon Lavi (R) and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (R) at Mount Meron ahead of the tragedy, April 29, 2021 (Israel Police)

Police chief backs local commander in charge of Meron site at time of tragedy

Illustrative -- Injured arrive at the Ziv Medical center in Safed after the Meron tragedy, April 30, 2021 (Flash90)

16 still hospitalized after Meron tragedy; condition of 11-year-old boy improves

Rambam Medical Center in Haifa says child has been taken off ventilator and is no longer sedated; identification of fatalities set to resume Saturday evening

A photo of Nachman Doniel Morris, a student who died in the fatal crushing at Mount Meron in Israel on Lag B’Omer, was shared on social media. (Twitter via JTA)

Among Meron victims, at least 6 US citizens including 3 teens, and 2 Canadians

By New York Jewish Week via JTA and ToI Staff

Top row (L-R): Menahem Zakbah, Simcha Diskind, Shraga Gestetner, Shimon Matalon; 2nd row (L-R): Moshe Natan Neta Englard, Yehoshua Englard, Yosef David Elhadad, Moshe Mordechai Elhadad; 3rd row (L-R): Haim Seler, Yedidia Hayut, Daniel (Donny) Morris, Nahman Kirshbaum; 4th row (L-R): Abraham Daniel Ambon; Yedidya Fogel, Yisrael Anakvah, Moshe Ben Shalom

The victimsVictims of Meron tragedy include 2 sets of brothers, father of 11, 6 US citizens

Shraga Gestetner, of Montreal, was killed during the fatal crush at Mt. Meron on April 30, 2021. (screenshot: YouTube)

Mount Meron Disaster

Hundreds of strangers at funeral of Canadian Hasidic singer without family here

Calls go out for public to pay final respects to Shraga Gestetner, a father of 5 from Montreal, who came to Israel specifically for the Lag B’Omer celebrations

Ultra-Orthodox men carry the bodies of Moshe Englard, 14, and his brother, Yehoshua, 9, who died during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, in Jerusalem on Friday, April 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Families rush to identify, bury Meron disaster victims before Shabbat

It was 1st Holy Land pogrom since Crusades, but not the last

1921 Jaffa riots 100 years on: Mandatory Palestine’s 1st ‘mass casualty’ attack

By Oren Kessler

Among the some 150 casualties was Hebrew-language literature giant Yosef Haim Brenner, who was buried with dozens of other slaughtered Jews in a common grave in Tel Aviv

Ultra-Orthodox Jews take part in prayers on the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai during Lag B'Omer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, early Thursday, May 10, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Explainer

Why do ultra-Orthodox Jews flock to Mount Meron on Lag B’Omer?

The hilltop shrine, where 45 people were killed in a deadly crush, has long been a place whose symbolism reflects a mix of grief and euphoria

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews attend the funeral of Yehuda Lev Lubin in Jerusalem, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, where 45 people were crushed to death in Meron, northern Israel, April 30, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

For ultra-Orthodox Jews, a new tragedy after a year of terrible loss

File: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu greets then US Vice President Joe Biden upon his arrival to the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (Debbie Hill, Pool, via AP)

Biden calls Netanyahu to express condolences over ‘heartbreaking’ Meron tragedy

By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid

US president laments ‘the loss of life among worshipers practicing their faith,’ says ordered assistance be offered; Ashkenazi: Israel working to help families of 4 dead Americans

President Reuven Rivlin, right, meets Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during the funeral for late former president Shimon Peres at Mount Herzl Cemetery in Jerusalem, on September 30, 2016. (Mark Neyman/GPO)

Palestinian leader Abbas, Jordan’s king, Gulf allies send condolences over Meron

Students at Scheck Hillel Community School in south Florida celebrated Lag B'Omer while commemorating the tragedy in Meron, Israel (Greg Feldman via JTA)

US Jewish day schools struggle with celebrating Lag B’Omer amid Meron tragedy

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Sitting in the darkness, together

Disaster at Mt. Meron: Right-wing, left-wing. Jewish. Arab. Religious. Secular. It all just blurs when tragedy happens in Israel

From bonfire to memorial flame: The teacher learns a lesson

The sad fact is that I am prone to prejudice against the ultra-Orthodox. It took this tragedy to set me straight: these people are my people

The site believed to be the tomb of King David. (Shmuel Bar-Am)

Israel Travels

History, mystery, and occult converge in King David’s fabled tomb

By Aviva and Shmuel Bar-Am

In Jerusalem’s City of David, visitors find ancient Roman burial caves, an historic 19th-century Jewish home and the site of shadowy excavations said to produce biblical treasures

Defense Minister Benny Gantz (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Knesset plenum on August 24, 2020. (Knesset Spokesperson's Office)

After Meron, Gantz said to explicitly tell Netanyahu no on forming government

Israeli TV says Blue and White chief told PM he is committed to ‘change bloc’; also reports that premier won’t seek extension of mandate unless coalition realistically in reach

"The Fox" by Franz Marc (Wikipedia Commons)

In precedent, German city to return painting to heirs of Holocaust survivor

By Toby Axelrod

Commission on restitution of stolen Nazi-era art previously avoided cases in which cultural property changed hands outside Germany

Beata Szydło, then the prime minister of Poland, speaks to reporters in Warsaw, July 31, 2016. (Kancelaria Premiera via JTA)

Auschwitz inmates’ families oppose ex-PM on museum council

By AP

File: Protesters attend a pro-Palestinian rally on Quds Day in Berlin, Friday, July 25, 2014 (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

Berlin bans annual Quds Day march that protests Israel

By JTA

US President Joe Biden speaks during an event to mark Amtrak's 50th anniversary at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia on April 30, 2021. (AP/Patrick Semansky)

‘L’dor v’dor’: Biden hails US Jewry contributions in heritage month proclamation

President notes how previous year was one of ‘historic firsts,’ with swearing-in of first Jewish second gentleman and first Jewish majority leader in Senate

A woman draped in traditional Sahraoui wear known as 'Malhafa' crosses a road in Dakhla city, Western Sahara, Monday, Dec. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)

Biden reportedly won’t reverse Trump recognition of Western Sahara as Morocco’s

The pregnant Egyptian mummy is prepared for X-ray scans at a medical centre in Otwock near Warsaw, Poland in December 2015. (Warsaw Mummy Project)

Mummy mummy

Polish scientists find 1st ever pregnant Egyptian mummy

By AFP

University of Warsaw professor says ‘a little foot’ was seen in the embalmed women’s belly: ‘That is why this mummy is truly unique’

A wreath lies on the coffin of a COVID-19 victim before his cremation in Jammu, India, Friday, April 30, 2021 (AP Photo/Channi Anand)

US to restrict travel from India over COVID starting Tuesday

By Zeke Miller, DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Matthew Lee

Nation will bar entry to most foreigners who’ve been to India in past 14 days, amid massive surge of infections

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This photo provided by the Metropolitan Police shows Benjamin Hannam. (Metropolitan Police via AP)

London ex-police officer jailed for 4 years for neo-Nazi group membership

By ToI Staff and AP

A 2018 photo of the Linfield University campus in McMinnville, Oregon (George Rose/Getty Images via JTA)

Criticism mounts after US university fires professor who alleged antisemitism

A view of the Storrs campus at Connecticut University (YouTube screenshot)

‘I don’t hate Jews, I’m critical of them’: US student held for swastika graffiti

By Pat Eaton-Robb

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screen shot from Vimeo via JTA)

Questions over alleged coverup of sex abuse claims against US Reform rabbi

By JTA

The seat of the County Council of Cambridgeshire (Courtesy via JTA)

UK Labour Party suspends 14 members over alleged antisemitism

By Cnaan Liphshiz

In this Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011, file photo, billionaire Eli Broad attends the unveiling of the Broad Art Foundation contemporary art museum designs in Los Angeles (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Eli Broad, Jewish billionaire entrepreneur who reshaped LA, dies at 87

Director Steven Spielberg addresses the audience at the 2018 Governors Awards at The Ray Dolby Ballroom on Sunday, Nov. 18, 2018, in Los Angeles. (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)

Steven Spielberg’s new foundation announces first 10 documentaries it will fund

By Gabe Friedman

New York City Council Member Chaim Deutsch shown at a Budget Negotiating Team meeting in 2018. (John McCarten/New York City Council, via JTA)

New York City Council expels lawmaker Chaim Deutsch over tax evasion

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Police found Nazi literature, weapons and other troubling objects during a raid in Tucuman, Argentina. (Tucuman Federal Prosecutor No. 2 via JTA)

Argentine police say they thwarted neo-Nazi attack on synagogue; 2 arrested

By JTA

In this July 8, 2013 file photo, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer addresses the media at a news conference in New York (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)

NYC mayoral hopeful Scott Stringer denies sex abuse allegations

By Andrew Silow-Carroll

Idaho, West Virginia pass anti-Israel boycott laws

By Gabe Friedman

A memorial made by the Jewish community is seen in front of the Consulate General of France on April 25, 2021 in Los Angeles, California to demand justice for Sarah Halimi (Apu GOMES / AFP)

Paris to name street in Jewish Quarter for Sarah Halimi

By Cnaan Liphshiz

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