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Kashrus Mashgiach, Beitar Illit resident and father of 14, was regularly humiliated by the victim • After a period of provocations, he poured boiling water on him and caused him severe burns on his face

Research by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies indicated the change in trend among residents of the capital • The number of haredim fell last year compared to the number of state and state-religious education students which grew • Mayor and City officials posted the data proudly on Facebook page - and got angry responses

"Tov" faction turned to IBA: 'Lawyer's day' was fixed during the 'three weeks' • Solution: postponed to Succos • Attorney Yechezkel Rosenblum: "Happy they were thoughtful of religious lawyers"

Happy ending – Mazal Tov: Yaakov Yosef Greenwald became engaged to the daughter of R' Yudel Yakav, an activist who worked for his release • The future father in law in a special conversation with Behadrey Haredim "he has a special personality"

Photographer Yaakov Nahumi with spectacular documentation: non-ceasing dances of people of Jerusalem • Halake children parting with their curls • and Rebbe of Toldos Aharon kindling the flame

Harsh tragedy in Beitar Illi: the avrech Harav Aharon Eisenbach, who died suddenly in his sleep • survived by his parents, a widow and five children • father owner of Shaarei Simcha halls

Yishai Driks celebrated the hilula of R' Shimon Bar Yochai with the Sephardi people on Mount Meron • Watch the kindling of the Rishon Letzion Hagr"s Amar • Also: Hachnasas Sefer Torah to the yeshiva of Mekubalim "Ohr Harashbi"

Attended by hundreds of Hassidim, the Tzanzer Rebbe held the customary kindling of Lag Ba'omer • Moshe Goldstein documented the event • From the yearning Tefilla before, to the singing after

Photographer Elishema Sandman was with the thousands on Mount Meron until sunset • Watch the documentation of the kindling event of the Toldos Aharon Rebbe, which concluded the celebrations in Meron

Mekubal Rabbi Benaiahu Shmueli spent a week in Meron with his followers • Two huge tents were set up to accommodate the hundreds of participants • Harav Ovadia Yosef called to give a special blessing

Finance Minister described in a letter to his activists MK Moshe Gafni of United Torah Judaism • "Most of the time functions as an aggressive and rude loudmouth, equipped with a pair of massive lungs, but out range of cameras – a pleasant man"

The law to change the electoral body chief rabbis passed • power of Shas weakened but Harav Ovadia Yosef insists there will be no deal • emerging: if the Amar law will not pass - Shas will operate to appoint Hgr"a Yosef

The fire broke out in a wood factory near the prison • Eight people were injured, including four seriously wounded guards • severely wounded by a fire in Shizfron, near Miron • fire near the settlement of Karmi Yosef

בַּר יוֹחַאי אַשְׁרֵי יוֹלַדְתֶּךָ אַשְׁרֵי הָעָם הֵם לוֹמְדֶךָ • enthusiastic dancing, heartfelt prayers, all in the shadow of flames • Yaakov Nachumi wandered in Miron and captured a gallery from another angle

After a night of fires and dancing, dawn broke over Mount Miron and mass celebrants lined up for shacharis near the Tzion • photographer Kobi Har Tzvi documents around the clock

See his face light up sitting with friends • variety of bonfires lit up the streets and alleys of Jerusalem on the night of Lag B'Omer • Yaakov Nachumi captured the sights and smells with his camera

Mass of people of Beis Yisrael came to Miron to pray at the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Watch the circles in the plaza, the bands singing in honor of the Tanna and excited chalaka children

Mass of celebrators go up to pray at Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai's grave, and then sit down for a seudas mitzvah • Tens of thousands of portions handed out during the day all over the mountain • See the documentation

Three generations celebrated in Beit Shemesh: Lag B'Omer began with a joint study of the 'Avos Ubanim' • carried torches in the street and allowed the city elders to light the fire • Yaakov Lederman with video and gallery

Qassam rocket exploded in the regional council Sedot Negev • children wandering outside for Lag B'Omer bonfires hurried into homes • IAF attacked an Islamic Jihad targets

Home of Rabbi Chaim Druckman, a leader of religious Zionism, was broken into on Thursday late at night when no one was there because his wife is sitting shiva for her brother

Thousands of people in Bnei Brak attended the lighting of Lag B'Omer • photographer Uzi Barak walked between the bonfires and documented • Watch the lighting of courtyards Alexander, Koidnov, Chernobyl, etc. • Video

The Boyan Rebbe lit the central fire on the Rashbi's tomb – and the crowd burst out in sweeping singing and dancing. Photographer Kobi Har Zvi documented the kindling and celebrations of the Chassidim

Tens of thousands stuck in traffic • Driver: "For five years I do not recall such jams. Officers don't function" • Thousands waiting for shuttles • Police: don't walk down the hill to parking lots I

Tens of thousands at the central kindling of the Boyan Rebbe at the Rashbi's tomb • transportation system collapsed: Tens of thousands stuck in traffic jams, thousands marching on foot • thousands of bonfires were lit across the country • Behadrey Haredim team at Meron presents reports from the scene and a huge review • 20 hours of live broadcast from Meiron: from the lighting of the Boyan Rebbe until the end of Toldos Aharon's lighting • watch now: repeat broadcast of celebration at night

Will Charish eventually be sold to the Haredi public? • Entrepreneurs and businessmen closing deals secretly with various construction companies for concentrated purchase • first deal was signed with 'Jay Engineering'

Boyaner Rebbe came to affix a mezuzah at the new structure of the mekubalim yeshiva 'Ohr Rashbi' in Miron • the yeshiva is preparing for Hachnasas Sefer Torah and Siyum of the Zohar • Video and Photos

Meetings held to date with the station complex entrepreneur in Jerusalem - failed Evaluation: Due to contracts signed, the developer will persist and the complex will operate on Shabbos • Factors in Eideh Charedi preparing for war

District Court Judge and graduate of Hevron - Moshe Sobel, set a precedent decision: wearing a tallis is not a transgression • Next target: women's prayer in the men's section

Air Force F-16 aircraft identified a UAV flying over Lebanon toward Israel • about 10 km off the coast of Haifa the aircraft was intercepted by the Air Force • Navy ships are searching for fragments of the aircraft • Apparently this is an Iranian aircraft launched by Hezbollah