Nachman Ash says that while he recognized that checking participants for proof of vaccination would be difficult, he didn't expect police to allow tens of thousands into holy site

Eli Friend testifies before commission into Israel’s worst civilian disaster: 'I begged, but I was not even invited to a single meeting'

Shmuel Rabinovitch testifies before commission into Israel's worst peacetime disaster: 'They didn't tell us there was an issue with the passageway. Nobody brought it up to us'

Northern District Police Commander Shimon Lavie and Rabbi Shmuel Rabinovitch, the rabbi of the Western Wall and the Holy Sites of Israel, among six officials called to testify

'We won't let you take the site out of ultra-Orthodox hands,' demonstrators chant as representatives examine infrastructure in their probe of deadly crush

Navi Pillay tapped by body's current leader to chair unprecedented commission of inquiry into 'root causes' of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Matanyahu Englman says move will allow official inquiry to 'optimally and exclusively' investigate the deadly crush that killed 45 people in April

Avichai Mandeblit says priority will be given to the state commission of inquiry to investigate the deadly crush that killed 45 people in April

Attorney general given 30 days to present government reports on planning of Lag B'Omer event at Mount Meron, where 45 people were killed in a deadly crush

Mordechai Karelitz, former Bnei Brak mayor, will be Haredi voice on 3-member panel, alongside IDF's ex-head of planning; April 30 tragedy claimed 45 lives, mostly ultra-Orthodox