Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler charged with resisting arrest, obstructing the law and violating the governor’s executive order banning gatherings

On Lag B'Omer, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men try to break into northern Israel tomb and mass event in Mea Shearim in capital apparently goes unnoticed by police

Scenes from mass crowding at Lag B'Omer bonfires in Haredi neighborhoods of Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh have media tearing its hair out or getting beat up for covering them

Just 200 people attend famous Mount Meron celebration in the Galilee, normally packed with a quarter million; when a singer praised the 'energy,' people thought he was joking

Prime minister orders police to crack down on gatherings in capital and Beit Shemesh amid warnings that incidents could lead to fresh outbreak of coronavirus

Israel Antiquities Authority reveals the coin, one of only four from the era to be discovered in the area, to mark Lag B'Omer holiday

Officers to increase patrols across country to locate any prohibited bonfires or gatherings during holiday, which begins Monday evening

Its Jewish-Arab, Orthodox-secular rifts are all still there, but the country has thus far proved capable of transcending them, holding together to reduce the pandemic's ravages

Cabinet said to reject National Security Council recommendation to impose another holiday curfew next week to prevent outbreak

With places of worship shuttered across the North African country, thousands who normally visit the site for Lag B'Omer will have to wait until 'the danger of the virus has passed'