 Ableton On Air is sponsored by Green Mountain Support Services, empowering people with disabilities to be home in the community. Washington County Mental Health, where hope and support comes together. Media sponsors for Ableton On Air include Park Chester Times, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, Associated Press Media Editors, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, U.S. Press Corps, Domestic and International, Anchor FM, and Spotify. Partners with Ableton On Air include Yechad New York and New England, where everyone belongs, and the Orthodox Union. Ableton On Air has been seen in the following publications. Park Chester Times, New York Parrot Online Newspaper, Muslim Community Report, WWW, this is the Bronx.info, and www.h.com. Hello and welcome to this edition of Ableton On Air, the one and only program that focuses on the needs, concerns, and achievements of a different label. I've always been your host, Lauren Seiler. Arlene is with me today. Say hi, Arlene. Okay. On this edition, today we speak about the dozens crushed to death in Israel in a pilgrimage stampede. Basically, an accident occurred according to news reports. For example, Al Tazera, America, and according to Al Tazera, there was a holiday called La Bromere, which is a Jewish holiday, and there was an accident that occurred. Tens of thousands of mainly Orthodox Jews were participating in an annual event for a religious scholar. The stampede of religious festival attended by tens of thousands of ultra-orthodox Jews in northern Israel has killed at least 44 people and injured 150 early last Friday. According, let me finish, please, according to medical officials in Israel. Morgan David, alum in Israel, emergency service said that at least 44 people were killed during an early Friday event. Thousands are fighting for their lives and dozens wounded and will not give up until the last victim was evacuated. So basically, that's what happened and this program is in memory of that. According to Al Tazera, Zaki Heller, a spokesman for Morgan David Olam, emergency service said that among the 150 people who had been hospitalized, six were in critical condition. On social media, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called it a heavy disaster and added, we are all praying for the well-being of the casualties. Netanyahu arrived on the scene in the stampede on Friday with television images showing the veteran premier touring the site of the incident. The stampede occurred when tens of thousands of mainly orthodox Jews were participating in an annual pilgrimage for the feast log, log Bomer on Mount Miran near the the reputed tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohi, a second century sage. The incident began when large numbers of people trying to exit the site thronged a narrow tunnel like passage according to witnesses. People began falling on top of each other near the end of the walkway as they descended a slippery meadow staircase witnesses set. Masses of people pushing into the same corner of a vortex was created. A man identified only by his first name, David, told Israel Army Radio that he described the terrifying site. The first row of people fell down and he said that the next row of people that tripped, they felt they felt like they were about to die. A video posted on social media by Israel Public Broadcasting showed the crowd of pilgrims walking down the narrow lane and basically they said that a large number of them were crushed and lost consciousness. Israeli public media published an image of a row of bodies covered in plastic bags on the ground. Emergency services deployed six helicopters to evacuate the engine. Some of the engines have been transported by military helicopters to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem rescue workers had set. Basically everything collapsed and in terms of coronavirus, according to also everybody else's opinion, it was an oversized crowd. Authorities had authorized 10,000 people to gather at the site, but the two and organizers said that there was 650 buses that have been chartered from across the country of Israel bringing at least 30,000 pilgrims pilgrims to Mount Miran. Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett was reporting and said that there had been a crowd of more than 100,000. There is no question of the enormous number of people significant of this significant religious event which has presented a problem due to COVID-19 risks. Witnesses said they realized people have been affixiated and trampled on which an organizer was appalled by the loud hella for them to disperse and they had bonfires and all that other thing. Now here's the thing, private bonfires at Mount Miran were banned last year due to coronavirus restrictions, but lockdown measures were eased this year among Israel's rapid COVID-19 vaccination program that has been more than 54% of the population fully vaccinated which brings us to this what is thousands of people doing an event it's too overly populated do you have anything you want to say about that huh yeah four yeah um yeah according to the New York Post New Jersey team Donnie Morris identified um yeah New Jersey team Donnie Morris identified among Americans killed in Israel's stampede um a New Jersey teenager has been identified according to New York Post a New Jersey um teenager has been identified of one of six Americans and four New York Metro metropolitan area residents killed in the deadly stampede at a religious festival in Israel last week Donnie Morris 19 was in Israel studying when he was caught in a in a crush of people during the annual logbo man festival on Mount Miran last Thursday among the 45 dead to have been killed in in a tragedy uh NBC News reports last Sunday three other residents um i'm gonna try to pronounce these names three other three three other can i finish please three other okay three other New York area residents uh uh i'm trying to pronounce his name uh Menachem uh Nabowitz of Burl Park Yosef Yosef Abram of Muncie and Eliza Joseph of of Kyra's Joel were identified as victims of the horrific human avalanche according to reports and we'll repeat those names again Menachem uh Kolobowitz of Burl Park Yosef Abram of Muncie and Eliza Joseph of Kyra's Joel were identified as victims of the horrific human avalanche according to reports there are four there are four families that are in the New York area that were in touch with um the consulate in New York helping helping them uh in Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs told um told journalists um two other families from Canada and one from Argentina were also in touch with the families authorities said that they are still working to determine if other Americans were killed in addition to the death to the disease there more than 100 people injured in last Friday's festival which draws tens of thousands of people primarily off the Jews every year to the tomb of Rabbi Simone Bar Yohi Reverend ancient Jewish mystic Israel's health ministry said that 32 other dead have been been identified by late Friday and the Jewish Sabbath halted process process of funerals until Sunday um Commander Simone Levy of a police official in charge of security arrangements for this year's festival said Friday that he took overall responsibility for the tragedy according to reports police briefly blocked a stairway at the bottom of the passageway where festival goers sought to flee it also says that the stampede took place after a grandstand of the foot of Mount Meron collapsed prompting hundreds to flee to safety and many more got trampled on Saturday dozens of Israelis many furious over the tragedy held a silent fury vigil outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's um um house so you know this is absolutely ridiculous the health ministry should have or Israel should have been more prepared for this it was entirely entirely too many people um on this walkway that collapsed um you know there's been many other tragedies um in in in the past um I'll give you a prime example I know that it has nothing to do with Israel but if you if you remember the movie Celina with Jennifer Lopez one of the scenes in the movie Celina was at a concert in Mexico too many people okay and people got trampled by the stage and brought and brought the stage down when you have too many people in a crowd for any festival you you've got to have three things better security um better ways of controlling the crowd and then you also have to have um things in place so nobody gets trampled many concerts people got passed away many um you know trampling on somebody is not it shouldn't be a human sacrifice you know um so and the news will change huh yeah uh as far as as far as coronavirus there are a lot of things that are going to be happening uh stadiums are going to be opening baseball games are going to be happening um broad broadway it is broadway going to be 100 capacity soon or no yeah so broadway is going to be turned a lot of things are going to happen um so so let's um go to another topic um Vermont and COVID-19 as it stands now okay so so now uh from according to the vt digger Vermont ranks first nationally in COVID-19 vaccination rate as of May 3rd 2021 um let's go here okay so uh now about 340,000 residents or 62 percent of the population has received at least one dose of the vaccine according to last week's data from the Vermont department of health about 44 percent of Vermonters have received both doses the state including us the state overtook Connecticut for first place in the u.s within the past week um Governor Phil Scott Harold Harold did uh the announcement um let's go back here uh hold on one second I need to go back to that um Governor Scott Harold did um on twitter on Monday we have been and Vermont has been a national leader throughout the pandemic and it's up to all to finish strong he said to sign up and and get the shot about 15 percent of people don't want to get the shot for some reason I guess because of more medical things the ranking is based on total doses administered first and second shot by that count Vermont has offered 580 580,000 shots since December at a rate of 93,100 per 100,000 people according to the CDC meanwhile supply appears to have been outstripped demand many of the state's sites sites have been open slots and inoculation rates have slowed the state has opened up vaccination to prior time residents including college students from uh from other states and people who work in Vermont and live across the border the Vermont department of health will now have to focus its efforts on reaching people hesitant to get the vaccine or who face barriers and getting a dose such as Vermonters experiencing homelessness or those in the northeast kingdom that have been lower infection rates have plummeted in Vermont down from 39 percent from April 1st commissioner of the financial regulation had said last week deaths and hospitalizations related to the virus have declined so um that's a good thing that um but there there's still a lot of people that have um or don't want the shot that can't get it or something so and didn't you want to say about that yes it's it's very important to get the shot um last thing before we end please um if you find it call the department go to the department department of health uh for the covid vaccine shot let me look up the number i got it wait wait wait hold on hold on i'm hold on i will i will get a covid department help number okay here's the situation um people 16 and older can make appointments now part-time Vermont residents including college students who are eligible to get vaccinated um fine testing locations throughout Vermont and you're allowed to do social gatherings and at a private residence and at a venue uh unvaccinated Vermonters who travel outside the state must be tested within three days of returning to Vermont and um people at higher risk should um should be careful for more information on the covid vaccine registration it's 1-855-722-7878 that number once again is 1-855-722-7878 covid 19 questions uh they they need to ask you questions is 802-863-7240 that number again 802-863-7240 the toll-free number is 1-833-722-0860 and um if you're deaf or hard of hearing i guess you can get another number or dial if you're deaf or hard of hearing and need a tty um you can dial 711 for that okay and if you have any problems with the covid vaccine you can dial 211 Vermont 211 um and you can find this at the public you can find this at the public communications office at vermont.gov and also at www.healthvermont.gov again www.healthvermont.gov forward slash covid 19 that's c o v i d um dash 19 again quickly those numbers for the covid vaccine registration 1-855-722-7878 the covid 19 questions in other words have you been outside the state etc um you can answer those questions at 802-863-7240 or 1-833-722-0860 um the and also you can find this at the acs public communications office at vermont.gov or www.healthvermont.gov forward slash covid 19 um again this program today was mainly in memory of uh the people of israel uh who had passed away from that log bolmer event um in memory to them um or as we say in jewish baruch dynamis um and um this puts an end to this edition of abled narnia please if you have not done if you have not done it already please go get your shot uh and abled narnia is sponsored by washington county mental health green mountain support services and many others who support our program see you next time i'm lauren syler see you next time is sponsored by green mountain support services empowering people with 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