WATCH: 200,000 attend Lag b’Omer festivities in northern Israel, despite pandemic warnings

Ultra-Orthodox Jews light a bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag b’Omer on Mount Meron in northern Israel, April 29, 2021. (Flash90/David Cohen)

Despite concerns about the Indian variant of the coronavirus, 200,000 people from across the country attended Lag b’Omer festivities on Mount Meron in the northern Galilee, where they visited the gravesite of the second-century sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.

 

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