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Israel to resume stampede funerals after Sabbath pause
6 years agoUltra-Orthodox Jewish mourners attend the funeral of a victim of Jewish pilgrim stampede, at Segula cemetery in Petah Tikva on April 30, 2021. - A massive stampede at a densely packed Jewish pilgrimage site killed at least 44 people in northern Israel. The tragedy struck after pilgrims thronged to the reputed site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's tomb at Mount Meron, where mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews mark the Lag BaOmer holiday. (Photo by GIL COHEN-MAGEN / AFP)
Israel was preparing Saturday to bury more victims of a stampede that killed at least 45 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site, one of the nation's worst peacetime disasters. Most…