Phones of the dead light up with desperate calls as Israeli festival turns into night of horror
A man grieves at Eliezer Goldberg's funeral who died in the stampede - Menahem Kahana/AFP/ In a tunnel at Mount Meron lies a twisted sheet of metal and a body bag, the last remaining signs of the The body bag is empty, but the metal sheet has been ripped off the tunnel wall and is covered in dents, a testament to the struggle of those crushed to death. Dozens were killed in the stampede, which erupted as Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community celebrated Lag B'Omer, a festival that honours one of Judaism's greatest mystical scholars. ...
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