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Widespread mourning and good deeds in honor of those who passed; 16 injured remain hospitalized
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Adults and children among the deceased
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Celebration at millennia-old holy site takes tragic turn in Israel’s worst-ever civil disaster
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Lag BaOmer, the 33rd day of the Omer count, is a festive day on the Jewish calendar.
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Meron is most well-known for being the burial site of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai. Rabbi Shimon, who lived in the 2nd century CE, was the first to publicly teach the mystical dimension of the Torah known as the Kabbalah, and is the author of the Zohar.
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