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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 532

Lag B'Omer

Police push back ultra-Orthodox men who tried to enter the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer, at Mount Meron, May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 27, 2024, 2:22 am
Police clash with ultra-Orthodox pilgrims at closed-off holy site in Mount Meron
Video shared by police shows worshipers throwing chairs and crates at cops; Border Police officer removed from duty after being filmed throwing elderly man to the ground
By ToI Staff
Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks as ultra-Orthodox Jewish men celebrate the holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem on May 25, 2024. (Ahmad Gharabli/AFP)
May 26, 2024, 7:00 am
Barred from Meron, Jewish worshipers mark Lag B’Omer at flashpoint East Jerusalem site
Thousands crowd into venue outside Shimon HaTzadik tomb as police lock down tense Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood; Sephardi chief rabbi lights fire, speaks before enthused audience
By Charlie Summers
Haredi Jews watch preperations for the Lag B'Omer festivities at the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Jerusalem on May 22, 2024. (Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/FLASH90)
May 25, 2024, 8:12 am
Fearing Hezbollah in north, state moves Lag B’Omer event to East Jerusalem flashpoint
With Mt. Meron in the Galilee closed due to missile fears, 30,000 pilgrims are expected to stream into the Shimon HaTzadik tomb in Sheikh Jarrah on Saturday night and Sunday
By Canaan Lidor
Smoke rises after rockets fired from Lebanon hit an open area in Mount Meron, northern Israel, May 15, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 1:38 pm
Authorities close Mount Meron ahead of Lag B’Omer over Hezbollah rocket threat
City of Tiberias also blocks access to Rabbi Akiva gravesite fearing too many pilgrims will throng shrine over holiday
By Canaan Lidor, Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Haredi Jews celebrate Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron on May 8, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 10, 2024, 3:21 am
IDF cancels Lag B’Omer celebrations on Mount Meron over Hezbollah attack risk
Police asked to prevent worshipers from reaching rabbi’s grave for annual pilgrimage; rocket attack from Lebanon sparks blaze in northern town
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
File - Jewish worshipers attend the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba, on May 8, 2023. (Yassine Mahjoub / AFP)
April 20, 2024, 10:01 am
Hit by terror in 2023, Tunisian Jewish pilgrimage scaled back amid Gaza security fears
Organizers say Lag B’Omer celebration will be moved entirely indoors at Ghriba synagogue, a cornerstone of millennia-old Djerba Jewry
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Israeli rescue forces and police at the scene after a deadly crush during celebrations on Mount Meron in northern Israel on April 30, 2021 (David Cohen/Flash90)
March 6, 2024, 1:59 pm
State inquiry blames Netanyahu, but does not sanction him, for deadly 2021 Meron crush
Commission says there was ‘reasonable basis’ to conclude PM knew site was dangerous; also names Ohana, Shabtai as responsible for disaster in which 45 men and boys died
By ToI Staff
The bonfire lit inside Beis Midrash Beis Shmuel synagogue in London, England last week (Screenshot via Jewish News UK used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law).
May 17, 2023, 9:21 pm
London synagogue catches heat for lighting indoor Lag B’Omer bonfire
Beis Medrash Beis Shmuel synagogue decides to not let rainy weather get in the way of festivities
By ToI Staff
A Jewish man and a child walk through the Hara Kebira, the main Jewish quarter on the island of Djerba, near the Ghriba synagogue following a shooting attack on May 10, 2023 (FETHI BELAID / AFP)
May 11, 2023, 9:03 am
‘Jewish life goes on’: Djerba community shows resilience after deadly attack
The day after a gunman killed five on Tunisian island, community celebrates a brit milah, highlighting hopes it will continue to attract pilgrims and remain a beacon of coexistence
By JTA and ToI Staff
Haredi Jews celebrate Lag B'Omer at Mount Meron on May 8, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 8, 2023, 10:48 pm
At Meron pilgrimage, joy and grief mix as Haredi traditions and secular Israel clash
At renewed annual Lag B’Omer event, worshipers mourn the 45 attendees killed in deadly 2021 crush, while chafing at regulations meant to head off another disaster
By Canaan Lidor
Visitors tour ANU, the Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv, March 9, 2021. (AP/Sebastian Scheiner)
May 8, 2023, 1:53 pm
Museums open doors for free to mark International Museum Day
Free access granted to exhibits, workshops and tours, in an event timed to coincide with the school Lag B’Omer vacation
By Jessica Steinberg
View of the illegal Bedouin village Khan al-Ahmar, just off of Road 1 in the West Bank, February 2, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 8, 2023, 1:00 pm
Daily Briefing May 8: High Court rules that everyone loses in Bedouin demolition case
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur explains underlying political resonance of Khan al-Ahmar petitions; religion reporter Canaan Lidor on Lag B’Omer
By ToI Staff
Pine processionary caterpillars climbing down a pine tree in a line. (Omer Golan, KKL-JNF Jewish National Fund)
May 7, 2023, 1:41 pm
In run-up to Lag B’Omer, KKL-JNF warns public not to touch pine caterpillars
Despite pesticide spraying in forests, organization warns public to take care when sitting under pine trees as larvae sting can cause skin, eye, throat irritation, allergies
By Sue Surkes
Moshe Mordechai Elhadad, 12 at the time of his death in 2021, is one of the 45 people who perished in the Mount Meron disaster in northern Israel on Lag B'Omer. (Courtesy of Shimon Elhadad)
May 3, 2023, 8:30 pm
On Meron disaster anniversary, relatives of victims connect to the site ‘even more’
Still processing the loss of 45 lives during 2021 pilgrimage, family members of the deceased say the tragedy has only strengthened their devotion to the event
By Canaan Lidor
United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush (left) and Yossi Deitch tour Mount Meron ahead of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer which annually attracts tens of thousands of Jewish worshipers, February 13, 2023. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 25, 2023, 5:18 pm
No private firm willing to insure Meron pilgrimage, two years after disaster
Treasury to consider partially indemnifying event in response to request from organizer Yossi Deitch, who says he is being treated ‘like a leper’
By Michael Horovitz
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