Live broadcast until Saturday: Watch all the lightings and dancing at the Rashbi Zion

April 29, 2021   

The revelry in Meron: About half a million people are expected to participate in the Lag BaOmer festivities - which began today (Thursday) in the afternoon. The 'Haredim 10' website is broadcasting the Hilula events live, around the clock, starting at 4:00 PM until tomorrow - an hour before Shabbat begins. Traveling by bus to Hilula in Meron? All the details you need to know The main lighting event - which was broadcast live - was opened by the Rebbe of Bayan, when he lit the bonfire at 8:00 PM, in the traditional lighting ceremony. The police have been deployed in large numbers: 5,000 police officers are securing the event and there will be a limit of up to ten thousand people who can be in the lighting area at any given moment. However, there will be no limit on the number of people inside Moshav Meron and in the surrounding parking lots. The traffic routes to Meron have been closed and access will only be possible by public transportation. According to the agreed-upon outline, only people who hold a vaccination certificate or a green badge will be able to enter the lighting area. Three bonfires will be lit simultaneously on three different levels, while adhering to the Ministry of Health's guidelines and adapting infrastructure. The Ministry of Transportation is calling on the public to use public transportation: 20 special trains will transport passengers to Hilula, and they will reach Karmiel and from there they will go up the mountain in shuttles. Travel requires booking a travel voucher in advance. The Israel Police explain the decision: "The train is an efficient means of transportation that is capable of transporting tens of thousands of passengers safely and efficiently. While taking dozens of buses and hundreds of vehicles off the road.". These are the times of the lighting of the lamps on Mount Meron by the Rebbes and Rabbis on the night and day of Lag BaOmer: 20:00 - The Rebbe of Bayan, the central lighting of the Zion roof. 21:00 - The Rebbe of Rabbi Raphael Abuhatzeira, in the area near his beit midrashu in the settlement of Meron. 21:30 - The Rebbe of the History of Abraham Yitzhak, in the permanent area - the signing of the History of Abraham Yitzhak. The Rebbe of Slanim, in the Bnei Akiva area (lower). 00:00 - The Rebbe of the History of Aaron, in the History of Aaron area. 00:30 - The Rebbe of Zevohil, in the Bnei Akiva area lower. 1:30 - The Rebbe of Rachmastrywka, in the Bnei Akiva complex (upper) 3:30 - The Rebbe of Safed, the Gaon Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, in the Bnei Akiva complex (upper). Rosh Yeshiva of Hoth Shel Chesed, the Gaon Rabbi Shalom Arush in Me'erat Hillel, Toldot Avraham Yitzhak complex. Yeshiva 'Oreita' from Jerusalem in the Bnei Akiva complex (lower). 4:00 - Lighting of the religious Zionism at the Zion roof in the Bayan complex. 7:00 - The Rebbe of Modzitz in the Bayan complex. Breslov community in the Me'erat Hillel complex. 10:00 - Lighting of the Breslov community in Safed, led by the Gra"a Koenig in the Gandhi complex. Meron in numbers: 15,500,000 budget for the celebration from the Ministry of Religious Services 500,000 pilgrims 7,000 round-trip trips to Zion in Meron 4,000 buses that will be available to the pilgrims 5,000 police officers and Border Guard soldiers will secure the event 19 lightings during the 24 hours of the event Various complexes within Meron (the current figure is possible and may change). 6 terminals that have been prepared and trained to accommodate the hundreds of thousands 7 government ministries (Religious Services, Transportation, Internal Security, Development of the Negev and Galilee Periphery, Health, Interior, Justice). 11- Governmental public bodies (Israel Police, National Center for the Development of Holy Places, Netivei Israel, National Fire and Rescue Authority, RTA, KKL-JNF, RAMI, Israel Antiquities Authority, and Home Front Command, United Hatzalah and MDA).