ISRAEL MOURNS MERON MOUNT TRAGEDY.

ICHEOKU says it has defied civilization as the only thing that is somewhat resolutely constant and admits of no reformation and has remained so for thousands of years since its inception. Religion is an addiction to those who are supremely adherent and they do not accommodate  any improvement as to the mode of worship. It has largely remained the same way since it was handed over to them, over the so many millenniums past, by their forebears. It was the way their forebears did it as it was the way their God ordered it to be done, so they must as a duty follow the same pattern, regardless of any associated risk to injury or even life which it might pose. 

The Jewish orthodoxy is one religion that is uncompromisingly resolute and which practices are somewhat irrevocably set in stone. To date, they still observe, carry out and perform all the traditional rituals associated with Judaism which dates so many centuries, including the pilgrimage to Mount Meron during the Lag b'Omer holiday in celebration of the birthday of Rabbis Shimon Bar Yochai, a second century sage and mystic figure who was buried at the foot of the mountain. His tomb is a holy site for the Jewish orthodoxy and it was during this pilgrimage that a stampede ensued while they were coming down from the mountain. 

The stampede has so far claimed the ives of over forty worshippers and wounded more than one hundred others. It is a terrible loss to people of Israel, Our heart goes out to them and we pray that God grant the departed rest and for their mourning families, the fortitude to bear their loss. To the entire Jewish nation of Israel, ICHEOKU says we mourn with you. May God comfort you among other mourners of Zion and Jerusalem. Shalom.