About two years after the disaster: about 160,000 tickets were sold for the fun in Miron

Ahead of the Hashabi festivities in Miron, which will take place in Lag Ba'Omer this week, a meeting was held last Friday at the location, in which the Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Israeli Traditions Meir Proosh , the government commissioner for the event, Projector Miron Yossi Deitch and the commander of the northern district of the police, Superintendent Shoki Tachocha, took part.

About 160,000 tickets were sold for the event. Project director Deitch said that "as soon as the tickets were released, about 60-70 thousand tickets were sold in three to four hours."
The police officer in the northern district, NCM Ran Levy, said: "The police are prepared for 'Operation Miron', and we have already approved the plans by the district commander and the commissioner. The collaboration with the projector is excellent."

About two years after the Hilula disaster in Miron, during which 45 people perished, in what was defined as the largest civil disaster in the history of the country, there are those who defined the success of this year's event as a great test of the ultra-Orthodox public, as far as management at the national level and successful integration with state institutions is concerned. In an audio message distributed to the entire ultra-Orthodox public last Friday, Minister Proosh addressed the immigrants to Miron and asked them to adhere to the rules of the outline. At the beginning of the announcement, Parosh stated that "this year we were privileged to return the tradition to its former state, and allow the Rabbis of the House of Israel to come to celebrate the 3rd of the Omer happily and safely."

Miron Disaster (Photo: David Cohen Flash 90)

He added: "The outline that has been drawn up includes many improvements that you can see in Meron, around the Zion compound where new compounds and access roads have been prepared. Please avoid getting into dangerous pressure situations, behave in a mutual bond and remember that there are other Jews who want to get to Meron – and they depend on you."
The Zaka organization is also working on the final preparations for the event. The organization will operate centers to locate missing persons in cooperation with the police. The centers are located at the top of Mount Meron in the Zaka complex and in the center of the main axis of the Hilola complex. In the event that a person gets lost, you can call the number 1220 from any phone ( without an asterisk) or reach the station. ZAKA volunteers and the police will work to locate the missing person.

In addition to the activities of the centers for locating the missing, the organization's volunteers will distribute tens of thousands of bottles of cold water, and an area will even be set up to charge mobile devices.