At least 45 killed after stampede at religious gathering in Israel; several Americans among the dead

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 ...

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