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Israel holds day of mourning for stampede victims
6 years agoUltra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a funeral ceremony in Jerusalem for a victim of a stampede during a religious gathering in northern Israel, on May 1, 2021. - Israel resumed funerals for victims of a stampede that killed 45 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site, one of the nation's worst peacetime disasters. Tens of thousands of people had thronged to Mount Meron in northern Israel and the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on April 29 to mark the Lag BaOmer holiday and commemorate the second-century Talmudic sage's death. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
Flags were flown at half-mast Sunday as Israel held a national day of mourning for 45 men and boys killed in a stampede at a packed Jewish festival.
