44 People Crushed To Death In A Stampede At An Israeli Religious Festival
A stampede that occurred at a religious festival is attended by tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews in Northern Israel has killed at least 44 people and has injured some 150 others on early Friday, as stated by the medical officials in one of the country’s deadliest civilian disasters. The stampede reportedly occurred during the celebrations of Lag BaOmer at Mount Meron. Tens of thousands of people who are mostly ultra-Orthodox gather every year to honor Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second-century sage and mystic who has…
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