Log bomer12/8/2023 His political rivals, including former allies bent on ending his 12-year rule, will then get a chance to try to cobble together an alliance from a patchwork of left-wing, centrist and hawkish parties. Netanyahu has so far been unsuccessful in forming a governing coalition, and his time for doing so runs out early next week. The deadly stampede was also bound to have political reverberations at a time of great uncertainty following an inconclusive March election, the fourth in two years. The Justice Ministry said the police's internal investigations department was launching a probe into possible criminal misconduct by officers. "In one moment, we went from a happy event to an immense tragedy," he said. Heller told Israel Army Radio that "no one had ever dreamed" something like this could happen. Zaki Heller, spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service, said 150 people had been hurt in the stampede. That had previously been believed to be the deadliest civilian tragedy in the country's history. The death toll at Mount Meron exceeded the 44 people killed in a 2010 forest fire. The country's figurehead president, Reuven Rivlin, lit 45 memorial candles to honor the dead. In a race against time, a number of funerals were to be held before sundown Friday, the start of the Jewish Sabbath when burials do not take place. "The picture is slowly becoming clearer," Kivi Hess, a municipal spokesman, told Channel 13 TV. In the overwhelmingly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv, officials were working with healthcare workers to connect the families of the missing. In the night from Thursday to Friday, cell phone coverage around Mount Meron had collapsed for hours and emergency hotlines were overwhelmed with phone calls. In the immediate aftermath of the stampede, rescue workers collected the bodies, wrapped them in white covers and laid them side by side on the ground at the site.īodies were later taken to Israel's central forensic pathology institute for identification.Īmong the victims was 38-year Elazar Goldberg, whose father called on God to protect his children as his son was laid to rest in Jerusalem, AFP reported.Įfforts were still under way to identify some of the victims and connect families with missing relatives. He said the government was responsible for the deaths of "beautiful holy Jews that were killed here for no reason whatsoever, just to prove a point that they're in charge of this place instead of the Orthodox Jews being in charge."Īt least 45 people were killed, according to the Israeli Health Ministry, with four people remaining in critical condition. "And the officers who were there couldn't care less." Velvel Brevda, a rabbi who witnessed the stampede, accused police of putting up barriers that had prevented people from leaving through exits that were usually open in past years. "I have instructed my team to offer our assistance to the government and people of Israel as they respond to the disaster and care for the wounded." Paramedics and ultra-Orthodox Jewish men stand next to covered bodies after dozens of people were killed and others injured after a grandstand collapsed in Meron, Israel, where tens of thousands of people were gathered to celebrate the festival of Lag Ba'omer at the site in northern Israel early, April 30, 2021. "The loss of life among worshipers practicing their faith is heartbreaking," Mr. President Joe Biden said he spoke with Netanyahu on Friday to offer condolences. "Nobody managed to halt," he said from a hospital bed. One of the injured, Avraham Leibe, told Israeli public broadcaster Kan that a crush of people trying to descend the mountain caused a "general bedlam" on a slippery metal slope followed by stairs. Medics and rescue workers attend to the Lag BaOmer event in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, at Mount Meron, Israel, April 30, 2021. People began falling on top of each other near the end of the walkway, as they descended slippery metal stairs, witnesses said. The stampede began when large numbers of people thronged a narrow tunnel-like passage during the event, according to witnesses and video footage. It said in a statement that it was "working with the families of all those who died and were injured to enter Israel as easily and quickly as possible." The Consulate General of Israel in New York on Friday confirmed that four of the dead were U.S. It was one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters. Jerusalem - A stampede at a religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in northern Israel killed at least 45 people and injured about 150 early Friday, medical officials said. Stampede at Israel religious festival kills at least 45 00:22
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