Police make an arrest in Mount Meron on Lag BaOmer. May 12, 2020. The police arrested some 300 Ultra-Orthodox Jews on Tuesday who stormed Mount Meron to celebrate Lag Ba’Omer at the site, although it ...

Hundreds of thousands of Jewish worshippers are converging on the town of Meron in northern Israel to celebrate Lag B'Omer at the Tomb of the ancient Jewish scholar and mystic Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.

Ahead of the Jewish holiday of Lag Ba’omer, a state inquiry committee decided on Thursday that only one central bonfire will take place at the gravesite complex of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Mt. Meron ...

Hundreds of thousands of Jews joined each other in the town of Meron, just a mountain away from the northern Israeli city of Tsfat, for Saturday night and Sunday, participating in the annual ...

A crush during a religious celebration at Israel’s Mount Meron killed at least 45 worshipers Friday. An estimated 50,000 to 100,000 people had crowded onto the mountain to celebrate the Lag B’Omer ...

Around 33 people were hospitalized in minor conditions during the Lag Ba'omer celebrations at Mount Meron in northern Israel on Thursday night, Magen David Adom (MDA) confirmed. MDA treated and ...

Lag Ba’ Omer festivities got underway at noon here today with the traditional procession to the graveside of Rabbi Shimon Bar-Yohai in nearby Meron, the center of countrywide observances of the ...