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The Rashbi celebration on Mount Meron: Hundreds of thousands on their way to participate in the celebrations
The event will take place under the guidance of the Ministry of Health, after last year only a few dozen participated in it following the corona restrictions.
The number of people in the lighting complex will be limited to ten thousand, while the rest of the spaces will be open to the general public.
Lightings will begin at 8:30 p.m.
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Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai
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Eli Ashkenazi
Thursday, 29 April 2021, 19:14 Updated: 19:18
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Hundreds of thousands are expected to attend the festivities.
Preparations for the celebration on Mount Meron, today (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
Hundreds of thousands of people are expected to come tonight (Thursday) to the traditional celebration of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi) on Mount Meron, in an event that will last into the night, after last year there were only a few dozen due to the corona restrictions. To the mountain, by buses and private vehicles. On the way to Meron there were heavy traffic loads. The lighting will start at 20:30, and not at midnight as usual.
According to the decision of the Ministry of Health The spaces will be open to the general public, and will have scattered huge screens to allow the public to watch the safety of the fires.
Earlier, a 70-year-old man collapsed in the area of Mount Meron, apparently due to a heart attack. MDA staff provided him with initial treatment and evacuated him to Ziv Hospital Respiratory and anesthetized.
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Preparations for the celebration on Mount Meron, today (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
Senior Ministry of Health officials aspired that only those with a green sign would come to the celebration, but eventually children would also enter it, and the number of bonfires inside the tomb complex and visitors would be limited. The ministry ruled that entry to the lighting area is restricted to those with a green card, but clarified that this will not be checked. However, the police recommended that older people, pregnant women, children and the sick should refrain from attending the revelry.
According to the outline of the Ministry of Health, 20 people will be allowed to enter the tombstone structure at the same time. It was also stated in the outline that the police must take care of this. It is not clear how this directive will be fulfilled: during the revelry hundreds of people enter the building, and inside and around the tomb mark there is a large crowd. The commander of the Northern District, Superintendent Shimon Lavi, addressed the public with a request that "everyone who arrives at the grave site is asked to enter and leave immediately and not to delay the place, in order to allow the other believers who are waiting to enter the place."
Already yesterday they began to reach the mountain of celebrants, in a significant amount in relation to the number of people who in previous years came in the days leading up to the main event, this is probably because the holiday goes out close to Friday and the beginning of Shabbat.
As a result, police said it was a "special" year, as "the whole incident is spread over just one night, while in previous years it has been spread over two days."
Preparations for the celebration on Mount Meron, today (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
About 5,000 policemen and fighters were deployed from this morning at 7:00 until Friday, near the beginning of Shabbat, on all traffic routes that reach Meron in security circles and throughout the compound.
Two celebrants were arrested and removed from the scene after interfering with police work at the revelry women’s compound.
Police later announced that the two had been released.
"The Israel Police is making great efforts to make the incident as orderly as possible, with the safety and security of those celebrating in Meron and returning to their homes in peace," the police said.
In addition to the police, emergency and rescue bodies from the Ministry of Internal Security - MDA Fire and Rescue and other bodies including Ezer Mitzion, the Rescue Union, the Nature and Parks Authority, and the Home Front Command are preparing for the celebration.
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