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Visitors at the site where 45 people were killed in a crush at Mt. Meron, May 2, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 3, 2021, 7:19 pm
At Knesset memorial, leaders urge comprehensive probe of Meron tragedy
Netanyahu says deadly crush will be thoroughly investigated, but doesn’t mention a state inquiry commission; Deri, breaking silence, also calls for full examination
By TOI staff
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man weeps at a cemetery in Bnei Brak, during the funeral of one of the victims of the Meron crush on April 30, 2021. (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
May 2, 2021, 9:59 pm
After Meron calamity, Haredim question the price of their own autonomy
Ultra-Orthodox media figures are calling for a commission of inquiry, and lashing the state for letting their community endanger itself
By Haviv Rettig Gur
A man weeps at the funeral of Rabbi Eliezer Goldberg, who died during Lag BaOmer celebrations at Mt. Meron in northern Israel, in Jerusalem on Friday, April 30, 2021.(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 2, 2021, 1:51 pm
Daily Briefing May 2 – Anatomy of a disaster: What happened at Mount Meron?
Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today
By TOI staff
File: Ultra-orthodox men take part in celebrations of Lag B'Omer on Mt. Meron, at the gtravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, May 17, 2014 (Flash90)
May 2, 2021, 12:39 am
Meron disaster site revealed as a place where nobody was ever really in charge
Caught in tug of war between authorities, religious sects and interest groups, Israel’s 2nd most-visited Jewish holy place has no full, official state oversight
By TOI staff
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)
May 1, 2021, 5:57 am
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
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a meeting at the Knesset with parties in his right-wing bloc on November 18, 2019. (Hadas Parush/ Flash90)
April 18, 2021, 10:27 pm
To avert 5th elections, block Lapid, right-wing parties float direct vote for PM
Bennett reportedly convinces Netanyahu to back proposal; Likud leader hopes that, with Yamina’s support, legislation will pass Knesset
By Raoul Wootliff
Yazidi newborn Hena arrives in Israel from Iraqi Kurdistan with her uncle to undergo life-saving heart surgery at Sheba Hospital (courtesy Shevet Achim)
April 4, 2021, 4:38 pm
After agonizing wait, Israel lets in Yazidi baby for life-saving treatment
Newborn Hena from Iraq reaches Sheba Hospital; eight more Kurdish babies requiring emergency surgery to enter from Jordan on Tuesday
By Lazar Berman
President Reuven Rivlin casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on March 23, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 23, 2021, 12:31 pm
Rivlin: Constant votes very troubling; Netanyahu: Hope this is the last election
Lamenting political situation that has forced 4 rounds of voting in 2 years, president says power to influence is in hands of public; PM calls day a ‘festival of democracy’
By Aaron Boxerman, Jacob Magid, Michael Bachner and Lazar Berman
Hena, a Yazidi newborn from Sinjar, waits in a Duhok hospital for permission to enter Israel for life-saving heart surgery. (Shevet Achim)
March 22, 2021, 6:44 pm
Kurdish babies’ lives hang in balance as Israeli red tape blocks their last hope
Doctors near Tel Aviv are ready to operate, but a hellish bureaucratic mess between government bodies means sick children are being kept from surgery that can save their lives
By Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2021, 3:31 am
Deri says he won’t support Knesset efforts to cancel Netanyahu trial
Shas leader says Netanyahu himself prefers to complete trial and prove himself innocent; will support efforts for lawmakers to override courts in some situations
By TOI staff
Shas party chief Aryeh Deri speaks at an election rally in Jerusalem on March 11, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
March 21, 2021, 5:56 pm
Shas leader defends absence of female candidates: ‘It isn’t their natural place’
Aryeh Deri asserts Haredi women would be ‘the first’ to oppose a party that has female ultra-Orthodox politicians; Liberman slams him as ‘minister for the exclusion of women’
By TOI staff
Ukrainian border guards block the road on the Belarus-Ukraine border, in Belarus, September 15, 2020. (TUT.by via AP)
March 19, 2021, 5:29 pm
Ukraine to let in vaccinated Israeli pilgrims for Rosh Hashanah
Kyiv’s interior minister says talks being held for Israel to supply coronavirus vaccine doses to country
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) shakes hands with Yair Lapid, leader of the Yesh Atid party, in the Knesset plenum, October 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)
March 10, 2021, 4:06 pm
In final push, Netanyahu and Lapid turn on their own camps
There’s a cruel irony to this election: To win, each leader must cannibalize his own camp. But go too far and you hand the election to the other side
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The departure hall at Ben Gurion Airport on January 25, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
March 6, 2021, 6:31 pm
Politicians regularly meddled with arrivals committee to help associates — TV
Letter from legal adviser claims panel that ruled on entrance to country was often instructed on who to let in, including by Deri aide
By TOI staff
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (C), then-health minister Yaakov Litzman (L) and United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni attend the third annual Shas conference at the Ramada Hotel in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 5, 2021, 6:02 am
Branding liberal converts a demographic threat, Haredi campaigns get second wind
Israel’s religious conservatives have spent the week warning of nonexistent conversion drives among migrants and foreigners, while ignoring the conversion crisis closer to home
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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