Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewish worshippers visit the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi) in Meron, northern Israel, ahead of the Jewish holiday ...

Police were gearing up for potential clashes with ultra-Orthodox pilgrims expected to try to ascend Mount Meron, after authorities drastically scaled back annual Lag B’Omer festivities at the northern ...

Theodor Meron, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Emeritus and Judicial Fellow, looks back at a long and remarkable life. A ...

Israel’s two chief rabbis instructed celebrants not to travel to a holy site on Mount Meron during the upcoming holiday of Lag B’Omer because of the war. Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef and Rabbi David Lau ...

Religious protesters were seen in video recordings cutting the fences around Mount Meron on Sunday, saying they plan to defy police orders to avoid the area amid safety concerns. "We will cut all the ...