For the first time in around a decade, the Religious-Zionist community will not be holding its own bonfire-lighting event in Meron on Lag b'Omer, which falls on Wednesday night and Thursday of next week. In recent years, the custom developed of holding a separate bonfire-lighting ceremony in the Bnei Akiva plaza in honor of the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai, with the participation of Religious-Zionist rabbis such as Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Chaim Druckman, and Rabbi David Dudkevich. Following the terrible tragedy that occurred last year, it was decided that this year, only one bonfire would be lit at...
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