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Israel: 1000s to join Jewish pilgrimage year after 45 deaths
Tens of thousands of Jewish faithful were expected at Israel's Mount Meron on Wednesday for an annual pilgrimage, a year after 45 people were crushed to death in a stampede. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said his government made a "considerable investment" in new safety measures to ensure there is no repeat of what was described as the greatest civilian disaster in Israeli history. The Mount Meron pilgrimage occurs on the Lag BaOmer holiday, when mainly ultra-Orthodox Jews throng the site of the tomb of revered second-century rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai. On 30 April last year, a stampede broke out in the male section of the gender-divided site as the size of the crowd tu

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