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Relatives of victims, who were killed in a bus accident near the holy city of Medina, mourn in Hyderabad on November 17, 2025. (Noah SEELAM / AFP)
November 17, 2025, 2:48 pm
Bus crash in Saudi Arabia kills 45 Indian pilgrims
One passenger survives crash after bus carrying worshippers collides with diesel tanker near the holy city of Medina
By RAJESH ROY and OMER FAROOQ
Video screenshot from X of widespread littering around Romania’s Bacău "George Enescu" International Airport, October, 2024. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 14, 2024, 3:26 pm
Jewish pilgrims returning from Uman leave piles of trash at Romanian airport
Images on social media show widespread littering, long lines, clashes with police in Bacău airport, as some passengers say local authorities ‘made it impossible’ to fly home
By ToI Staff
A boy watches three Israeli pilgrims sleep by their minivan in Palanca, Moldova on September 14, 2023. (Canaan Lidor / Times of Israel)
September 15, 2023, 8:47 pm
Ignoring warnings, Israelis take kids on Uman pilgrimage in war-torn Ukraine
Despite calls by Jerusalem and Kyiv to stay away this year, hundreds of devout Jews have brought their young children to the annual Rosh Hashanah celebration
By Canaan Lidor
Jewish men in the street near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, September 25, 2022. (Flash90)
September 14, 2023, 3:10 pm
Over 20,000 pilgrims arrive in Uman to mark Jewish New Year under boosted security
Governor of Ukrainian region where city is located says ‘the situation is stable and under control’ amid Russian invasion, with concrete mobile shelters installed as a precaution
By AFP
A minibus on fire after a crash in Iraq's Babil province that killed at least 11 Iranian pilgrims, September 11, 2022. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 11, 2022, 8:03 pm
11 Iranian pilgrims, driver killed in Iraq as minibus slams into truck, catches fire
Iranian minister says bodies burned beyond recognition, will be examined back home, after accident in Babil province; 4 in critical condition as Shiites mark Arbaeen pilgrimage
By AFP
A Jewish pilgrim writes her wishes on an egg before putting it back in the cave at the Ghriba synagogue in Tunisia's southern resort island of Djerba on May 18, 2022, during the annual Jewish pilgrimage to the synagogue. (FETHI BELAID / AFP)
May 18, 2022, 4:55 pm
Jewish pilgrims return to Tunisia after a COVID-induced hiatus
Hundreds of worshipers pass through armed police guard to enter the Ghriba Synagogue, Africa’s oldest shul
By AFP
'Embarkation of the Pilgrims,' by Robert Walter Weir, circa 1857. (Public domain/ Brooklyn Museum online collection)
November 26, 2020, 1:39 am
Back in 1620, the Pilgrim leader behind the 1st Thanksgiving was Hebrew-obsessed
William Bradford’s ‘Of Plymouth Plantation’ features about 1,000 words in the biblical tongue. But although many early Protestants studied Hebrew, they were hardly philo-Semitic
By Rich Tenorio
Illustrative: A group of Orthodox Jews pray around the holy Jewish sites of Uman, Ukraine, September 21, 2006. (AP/Efrem Lukatsky)
September 1, 2020, 1:09 am
Hasidic pilgrims on 2 flights are barred from Ukraine as entry ban takes effect
Another group tries to cross border from Belarus but is detained, amid fears of virus outbreak if thousands attend annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage in Uman
By JTA
Pilgrims pray around the Kaaba, the square structure in the Great Mosque, toward which believers turn when praying, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 26, 2020. (Saudi Ministry of Media via AP)
July 29, 2020, 8:55 am
Technology infuses ancient hajj rites tailored for pandemic
Pilgrim numbers reduced from annual 2.5 million to a select group of no more than 10,000, who are being electronically monitored every step of the way for COVID-19 symptoms
By Aya Batrawy
Muslim pilgrims touch the golden door of the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, during the hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, August 13, 2019. (Amr Nabil/AP)
October 17, 2019, 4:16 pm
35 pilgrims killed in bus crash near Saudi holy city of Mecca
No cause immediately provided for incident involving chartered vehicle carrying Asian and Arab nationals
By AP
A Roman road known as the Pilgrim's Path being excavated at the City of David archaeological site in Jerusalem, September 24, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
October 17, 2019, 4:01 pm
On an ancient road to the Temple, archaeological innovation, mystery and dispute
As they excavate 2,000-year-old Stepped Street under thriving Arab neighborhood, careful to avoid collapsing the homes above, are archaeologists bending, or recreating, the rules?
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Iranian pilgrims to Mecca chanting anti-Israel and anti-US slogans, in a segment broadcast on August 12, 2019. (Screenshot: Twitter)
August 12, 2019, 12:47 pm
Iranian pilgrims in Mecca call for Israel’s destruction, cry ‘Death to America’
In TV segment, Muslims hold hajj ceremony purporting to ‘disavow polytheists’ but in fact dedicated to stoking anti-Western sentiment
By ToI Staff
In this October 4, 2015, file photo, an Iranian mourner weeps during a funeral ceremony, attended by thousands of mourners in Tehran, Iran, for some of the pilgrims who were killed in a stampede during the hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia in September 2015. (AP/Vahid Salemi, File)
February 4, 2019, 7:44 am
7 Iranian pilgrims wounded in shooting attack in Iraq
Bus returning to Baghdad from Shiite pilgrimage town comes under attack by gunmen
By AP
Muslim pilgrims circumambulate around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, before leaving for the annual Hajj pilgrimage in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on August 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)
August 19, 2018, 9:25 am
Over 2 million Muslims kick off annual hajj pilgrimage
Saudi Arabia has invested billions to ensure worshipers’ safety after deadly accidents such as 2015 stampede, as well as potential jihadist threats
By OMAR AKOUR
Illustrative: Shiite Muslim pilgrims gather outside the Imam Hussein shrine on the last day of the Arbaeen religious festival on November 21, 2016, in the holy Iraqi city of Karbala, 50 miles (80 kilometers) south of Baghdad. (AFP/Mohammed SAWAF)
November 24, 2016, 5:13 pm
Iraq truck bomb kills 70, mostly Iranian pilgrims
Blast targets packed buses at gas station following Shiite festival in city of Karbala
By Agencies
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