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2021 Meron Stampede
On 30 April 2021, at about 00:50 IDT, a deadly crowd crush occurred in Meron, Israel, during the annual pilgrimage to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag BaOmer, at which about 100,000 people were in attendance. Forty-five people were killed, and about 150 injured, dozens of them critically, making it the deadliest civil disaster in the history of Israel. All of the victims at the gender-segregated event were men and boys. The crush occurred after celebrants poured out of one section of the mountainside compound, down a passageway with a sloping metal floor wet with spilled drinks, leading to a staircase continuing down. Witnesses say that people tripped and slipped near the top of the stairs. Those behind, unaware of the blockage ahead, continued, crushing the people further down.
List of Victims
- Ariel Achdut
- Abraham Daniel Ambon
- Yisrael Anakvah
- Moshe Bergman
- Eliyahu Cohen
- Chen Doron
- Simcha Bunim Diskind
- משה מרדכי אלחדד שארף
- יוסף דוד אלחדד שארף
- Moshe Nosson Nuta Englard
- Yehoshua Englard
- Mordechai Yoel Fekete
- Yedidya Fogel
- Luzer Gefner
- Shragee Gestetner
- אלעזר מרדכי ידלר גולדברג
- Yosef Greenbaum
- Yedidia Hayut
- Yonatan Hebroni
- Eliezer Tzvi Joseph
- Nahman Kirshbaum
- Rabbi Shmuel Tzvi Klagsbald
- Pinchos Menachem Knoblowitz
- Yossi Kohn
- Eliezer Yitzhak Koltai
- Dovid Kraus
- Shlomo Zalman Leibowitz
- Moshe Levy
- Yosef Yehuda Levy
- Yosef Mastorov
- Shimon Matalon
- Nachman Daniel "Donny" Morris
- Yishai Mualem
- Chaim Rock
- Yehuda Leib Rubin
- חנוך סלוד
- Haim Seler
- Moshe Ben-Shalom
- Elkana Shiloh
- Yaakov Elchanan Starkovsky
- Dovi Steinmetz
- Yosef Amram Tauber
- Ariel Tzadik
- Moshe Tzarfati
- Menachem Asher Seckbach
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