The Israel Police publishes an orientation map for all the Hilula areas on Mount Meron (Israel Police Spokesperson)
The weather forecast predicting rain on Sunday after the Shreb that will arrive tomorrow, encouraged the organizers of the Hashabi celebration on Mount Meron, since a Shreb in a mass and crowded event that also includes the lighting of bonfires is a problematic scenario. On the other hand, rain will make the giant parking lots muddy and the buses that will bring tens of thousands of revelers may And so, it was decided yesterday (Wednesday) to invest another million shekels in the tarmac of the parking lots on the outskirts of Moshav Miron. The one million shekels invested joins tens of millions of shekels invested so far in preparations for Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai's celebration that will be held this coming Monday. After the terrible disaster at the celebration two years ago,
where 45 revelers were killed, and the backlash during the revelry a year ago greatly reduced the number of people entering the celebrations, this year they are trying to find a balance between the excessive crowding that was at the time of the disaster and in the years preceding it, and the extreme thinning of the crowd on the mountain, as they did a year ago.
To this end, this year a new outline was decided upon, the implementation of which will lead to a significant reduction in the number of people who will go up to mark the grave of the Rabbi, and thus it is expected to reduce the crowding on the mountain. This year on the slopes of the mountain.
This will prevent the great rush and the formation of a bottleneck of the crowd of revelers on the way to and after the ignitions.
In the distant past it was customary to light only one of the large abuka above the roof of the tomb.
The lighting was done by the people of the Spanish endowment and Boyan Chassidism and over the years it was established as the lighting of the Boyan Chassidism.
According to a relatively new tradition, more Hassidim and courts began to hold torch-lighting events near the grave marker.
The flare-ups spread over about 12 hours and each such event created a rush and overcrowding that grew more and more over the years.
The Miron disaster two years ago occurred at the end of the lighting event of the Toldot Aharon Chassidim, while the crowd of participants in the event wanted to disperse and got stuck in a narrow passage.
This year, a lengthy process was carried out, during which Minister Meir Proosh and the projector of the revelry, Yossi Deitch, succeeded in convincing the rebbes and heads of Hassidism, who used to hold the lighting events on the mountain, to divert the lightings to a new complex on the edge of the mountain that was prepared for this purpose. It was a long process of persuasion and there are many from The celebrants who are angry at the layout change. The success in getting large communities to listen to their leaders and celebrate with their communities on the edge of the mountain rather than crowded around the Holy Sepulcher should significantly reduce the large crowding. A single lighting event on the roof of the tomb will be the lighting of the Boyan Hasidim. To regulate
the The number of revelers is 200,000 tickets are sold for organized transportation to Miron. These are tickets for organized transportation from around the country, or tickets for shuttles for those who arrive independently at the regulated parking lots in the Galilee. The tickets are sold according to arrival times for the revelry and this is how they plan to regulate the crowd.
The scene of the disaster in Miron, April 30, 2021 (Photo: Flash 90, David Cohen)
The Deutsche projector shows the outline of the revelry in Miron.
April 16, 2023 (photo: official website, David Cohen)
According to the plan, at any given moment there will be 50,000 revelers on the mountain.
The request addressed to the public is that after five hours on the mountain they will leave the place and allow the turnover and entry of newly arrived revelers.
Every hour 8,000 people are supposed to leave and 8,000 people enter instead.
The control over the turnover of the crowd will be done through a system that counts the crowd, with the help of dedicated drones that were brought in for this purpose.
The revelry headquarters hope that the crowd of revelers will indeed show consideration and that there will not be too many revelers who decide to stay on the mountain for more than five hours.
To this end, a large outreach operation was carried out in Hebrew, English and Yiddish, calling for consideration and solidarity.
Just in case, please note that in the parking lots where you will wait before going up to the mountain, toilets, booths and food and drink stalls have been prepared, so that the wait will be in proper conditions.
One of the complaints expressed by the celebrants last year was that the stay in the parking lots was in difficult conditions, which also caused angry outbursts of some of those who came.
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