“Unfortunately, last year the practice became a very difficult reality in which our teams were forced to operate in one of the greatest disasters in Israel’s history. “As in past years, we conducted a multi-casualty exercise to be prepared for the worst, while hoping for the best,” said Eli Bin, MDA director-general. Israeli emergency personnel at the scene of a mass fatality during celebrations of the Lag B’Omer on Mount Meron in northern Israel, April 30, 2021. At least 38 Israelis were killed and well over 100 injured Thursday night, due to a stampede caused by overcrowding during an annual pilgrimage at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai in Meron, on.
A fleet of 167 Mobile Intensive Care Units and ambulances, 20 Medicycles, multi-casualty vehicles, 4×4 lifesaving vehicles, an intensive care bus, a helicopter, four clinics, and on-foot medical teams are on the mountain and in the surrounding area. It’s important to return to the mountain in happier circumstances and that, please God, everyone will enjoy themselves and return home safely,” said Omri Gorga, 28, a paramedic and medical school student.ĭuring the festivities in Meron that will take place from Wednesday evening until Friday afternoon, 200 MDA EMTs, paramedics, and doctors will be deployed at the mountain and hundreds more will be on stand by, prepared to respond to any emergency. 50135 CE), ostensibly because of their indulgence in gossip and rivalry. “I always remember Meron as a happy event, one that brings people closer, but the disaster last year has ruined this memory. According to rabbinic legend, Lag b’Omer the 33rd day of the seven-week counting between Passover and Shavuot (Pentecost) was when a plague finally ended which had killed 24,000 students of the sage Rabbi Akiva (c.
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