Reply To: Frum Jews in Meron for Lag B’Omer

I was listening to a shiur by Rav Fischel Schachter who said among other things; In chutz La’aretz we have two days Yom tov. In EY they have Lag B’Omer instead. Until relatively recently, Lag B’omer was not celebrated outside of EY as it is today. The Rebbes in Eastern Europe did not have ‘Hadlokos’ as they do today, whereas in EY it was celebrated all the years.
People have been going to Meron for hundreds of years, but obviously the dangers of travel to what was a remote village, made it not the mass event that it is today until after the founding of the state.