On the evening of the 16th, local time, in Giv’at Ze’ev, a few kilometers northwest of Jerusalem, a large number of Jews in a Pentecostal religious ceremony accident, people standing in the temporary grandstand suddenly collapsed.
Giv’at Ze’ev News
Two people have died, including a 12-year-old child. Another 213 people were injured, 15 of them seriously.
Israel’s fire and rescue service confirmed that the synagogue used to hold the ceremony was still under construction at the time of the accident.
As a result, the event was not actually approved.
Giv’at Ze’ev News
Two people have died, including a 12-year-old child. Another 213 people were injured, 15 of them seriously.
The head of the local police accused the local government of failing to prevent the accident ahead of time, but local government officials responded that signs had been put up warning locals not to hold events at the site.
On 30 April, a serious stampede occurred in Mount Meron in northern Israel.
Some 100,000 Jews defied the country’s health ministry and other departments to hold large-scale religious rallies, triggering a stampede that killed 45 people.
