{"id":98250,"date":"2026-05-05T05:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/98250\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T05:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T05:07:14","slug":"over-20-people-taken-to-hospital-during-lag-baomer-celebration-in-meron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/98250\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 20 people taken to hospital during Lag Ba&#8217;omer celebration in Meron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Magen David Adom evacuated 23 injured people to the hospital over the course of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-895121\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lag Ba\u2019omer<\/a> celebrations in Meron,\u00a0Maariv reported on Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Among the injured was a 50-year-old man in moderate condition who had suffered a head injury. The remaining 22 were in light condition, suffering from weakness, fainting, and light bruising.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">MDA also treated another 39 people on the scene, without taking them to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old boy from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/arad\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Arad<\/a> was also taken to the hospital,\u00a0Maariv reported, after being burned in a Lag Ba\u2019omer bonfire. The boy suffered second-degree burns across 18% of his body and is in moderate condition.<\/p>\n<p>Israel Police <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-894909\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced on Sunday morning<\/a> that Israel\u2019s annual Lag Ba\u2019omer pilgrimage at Mount Meron will not take place as originally planned, adding that routes leading to the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai would be blocked starting from that day, with additional routes closing on Monday. These routes will be closed until Wednesday, May 6, the police stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The Israel Fire and Rescue Services said it had prepared for possible incidents at the Mount Meron complex, with trucks and firefighters in position to assist in the event of a fire, even though such operations are banned under current security guidelines.<\/p>\n<p>Shir Perets, Anna Barsky, and Tobias Holcman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Magen David Adom evacuated 23 injured people to the hospital over the course of\u00a0Lag Ba\u2019omer celebrations in Meron,\u00a0Maariv&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98251,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[14154,34436,3779,37,1835,5869,33515,3860,30341],"class_list":{"0":"post-98250","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-arad","9":"tag-david-cameron","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-israel-fire-and-rescue-authority","13":"tag-israel-police","14":"tag-lag-baomer","15":"tag-magen-david-adom","16":"tag-mount-meron"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116520238593530817","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98250\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}