Police say those arrested “attacked officers, threw rocks toward them and forcibly resisted dispersing.”
The clashes came after people broke into Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai’s grave site at Mount Meron, which emergency ordinances sharply limited access to during Lag B’Omer to prevent spreading of the coronavirus.
Header: Mount Meron, Israel – april 27 2013, a Jewish man near a bonfire during Lag Ba’omer festival in Bar Yochai tomb in Meron
Source: TOI