To AAQ: Since you brought up “health” note that I personally have been the least focused on Covid of anyone, since the entire thing started. I always skip over articles about same, as i’m focused on my own chronic issues (which are probably mutually exclusive to Covid) and which have never been of concern to anyone else, least of all the suppressive unhealthcare system.
(Just giving you some background, as its beyond the scope of this discussion.)
Which leads up to “why” i didn’t have in mind so much the Covid factor, as much as the jostling-crowd-factor unsafety factor. In other words, I get just as much the creeps from motorized-bikes mowing people down in the U.S. (and all sorts of stuff like that) as I’d be if i lived in Israel and knew that a relative was headed to the huge jostling crowds of Meron. It was a known fact every year that the crowds at Meron were scary (just research past chatter, especially by people who lived in the vicinity). i distinctly remember reading such chatter in the past, and you better believe i wouldn’t remember it if it hadn’t given me the chills when i read it.
Rebeli, Aryeh Deri, MK, mentioned in the news prior to and post-tragedy.