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#BREAKING Netanyahu calls stampede one of Israel's 'worst' disasters

#UPDATE Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a stampede that killed at least 44 people at a Jewish pilgrimage site on Friday was one of the "worst" disasters in Israel's history

📸 View of the northern Israeli town of Meron (foreground) after an overnight stampede

#UPDATE "The Mount Meron disaster is one of the worst to befall the State of Israel," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote on Twitter, as he declared Sunday a national day of mourning
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Israeli pilgrims recall how an annual pilgrimage quickly turned into a horrific night after tens of thousands packed the reputed site of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's tomb at Mount Meron in northern Israel
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