Event
During a mass gathering at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Mount Meron to celebrate Lag BaOmer
30 Apr 2021 · 32.98° N, 35.44° E
What the records say
- When
- 30 Apr 2021
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 32.98° N, 35.44° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 2021 Meron crowd crush.
Summary
During a mass gathering at the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Mount Meron to celebrate Lag BaOmer, 45 people are crushed to death while trying to exit through a narrow passage. Most victims belong to the Toldos Aharon hasidic movement.
5 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Bousculade du mont Méron”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “в результате давки в Израиле погибло 45 человек”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “En el Monte Meron, Israel una estampida deja al menos 45 muertos y decenas de heridos durante la celebración de Lag Ba'omer”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Arabic), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “تدافع جبل الجرمق مما أدى إلى وفاة 45 شخصا وإصابة أكثر من مائة”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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