יום שישי, י״ח תמוז תשפ״וFriday, July 3, 2026
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The mountain has been especially targeted by Hezbollah rockets and drones due to a nearby military base.
Porush said he could not carry out his responsibilities because of clashes with the Religious Affairs Ministry and the National Center for the Development of Holy Sites.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
There were about 130,000 revelers at Mt. Meron, instead of the usual 500,000.
Construction work ahead of the Lag B'omer festival, at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, in Meron.
The Police’s Internal Affairs has already announced it will probe the police’s conduct.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
“This is an event that could have been prevented and it is now up to us to examine how this event could have been prevented,” stated the State Comptroller.
By Josh Hasten
“There were bodies piled up on top of each other—some of the people were alive, and some of them were already dead. I have never seen anything like this before,” said Itzik Itach, a senior volunteer paramedic and logistics director of the Jerusalem area for Rescuers Without Borders.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
At some point, violent rioting began, including the throwing of rocks and other objects at the police, as well as forceful resistance to the police’s instructions.to leave the scene.
Join us as we re-examine the stories of this Talmudic scholar – and never think of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, or Lag BaOmer the same way again.
The real truth you can find from the bonfire inside of you!
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Chassidim (and other Jews) have a custom of not giving boys a haircut until they reach three years old.
Make this Lag B'omer holiday really special for the family!
He may have violated the Muslim-ordained prohibition against a Jew uttering a prayer to God.
Chareidi children build a big bonfire for tonight's upcoming celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer, in Jerusalem. Lag B'Pmer commemorates the Yartzheit, the passing of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi), one of the most important Talmudic sages in Jewish history 1800 years ago. He called for a day of celebration on the day […]
By Moshe Herman
Yishai and Malkah talk about Lag B'Omer in Meron, Israeli Arabs finding their identity, and French Jews leaving France en masse to preserve their identity.
How are they going to light marshmallows with that thing?
By Moshe Herman
Yishai interviews new Oleh Chaim Messer along with Hassidim on their way to Meron for Lag B'Omer.
Nine cars caught fire in the UN compound in Jerusalem, according to a report in Times of Israel. In the Armon HaNatziv neighborhood, firefighting crews battled the fire inside the UN compound that burned up between four to nine cars. The fire department believes the fires were started by sparks from bonfires in a nearby […]
The annual Jewish Lag B’Omer pilgrimage to the oldest synagogue in Africa should be maintained as a symbol of Tunisian openness, according to Tunisia’s tourism minister on Tuesday, yet the increase in fundamentalist Salafi Islamic political rule threatens to drive out the remaining Jews of Djerba.
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