| Cranston Illuminated Publishing 3860 Tangle Lane Winson-Salem, NC, 27106-2928 Want to end further messaging? Efforts were still underway Friday to identify victims and connect loved ones with missing relatives after a deadly stampede at a religious celebration in northern Israel killed at least 45 people. Israel?s Consulate General office in New York told the New York Times and ABC News that it had confirmed four of the dead were Americans. In what is one of the country's deadliest civilian disasters, about 100,000 people were crowded by Mount Meron early Friday for the celebration of Lag BaOmer, a holiday that, among other things, commemorates Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, a second century sage and mystic who is buried at the base of the mountain. Zaka, one of the country's ambulance service, confirmed the death toll had risen to 45. Around 150 people were injured with six in critical condition, said Zaki Heller, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom rescue service. An 18-year-old Bergenfield, N.J. man was among the dead, according to his family. Donny Morris was at Mount Meron for the celebration of Lag BaOmer, a festival celebrated at the foot of the mountain each year, when he was killed in the stampede. The gathering drew over 100,000 people and was the first legal religious ceremony since the COVID-19 pandemic began. "We are all shocked and devastated. There are no words," said Rabbi Yechiel Morris, the victim's uncle, who confirmed the young man's death on Friday. |
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