Meron and the Lag BaOmer Hillula
The identification of the tomb itself is a medieval tradition with no earlier documentation. In 2021 a fatal crowd crush at the pilgrimage killed forty-five people — a recent tragedy involving named families, stated here briefly and factually.
The bonfire pilgrimage, attested from the 16th century; the 2021 Mount Meron crowd crush
A tomb in the Galilee attributed to a revered second-century sage, the site of a mass annual bonfire pilgrimage drawing hundreds of thousands.
