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		</div><p>Two people have died and more than 150 people have been injured after a tiered seating structure collapsed at a synagogue in the West Bank, Israeli medics have said.</p>
<p>The structure was packed with ultra-Orthodox worshippers and collapsed during prayers at the beginning of a major Jewish holiday.</p>
<p>The collapse comes weeks after 45 ultra-Orthodox Jews were killed in a stampede at a religious festival in northern Israel.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said paramedics had treated more than 157 people for injuries and pronounced two people dead – a man aged in his 50s and a 12-year-old boy.</p>
<p>Rescue workers remained at the scene, treating the injured and taking people to hospital.</p>
<p>Amateur footage showed the collapse occurring during prayers on Sunday evening in Givat Zeev, just outside Jerusalem, at the beginning of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot.</p>
<p>The ultra-Orthodox synagogue was packed with hundreds of people.</p>
<p>The Israeli military said in a statement that it had dispatched medics and other search and rescue troops to assist at the scene. Army helicopters were airlifting the injured.</p>
<p>Israeli authorities pointed fingers at one another at the scene of the disaster.</p>
<p>The mayor of Givat Zeev said the building was unfinished and dangerous, and that the police had ignored previous calls to take action.</p>
<p>Jerusalem police chief Doron Turgeman said the disaster was a case of “negligence” and that arrests were likely.</p>
<p>Deddi Simhi, head of the Israel fire and rescue service, said that “this building is not finished. It doesn’t even have a permit for occupancy, and therefore let alone holding events in it”.</p>
<p>Television footage from the scene showed the building was incomplete, with exposed concrete and boards visible.</p>
<p>The fatal stampede at Mount Meron on April 29 triggered renewed criticism over the broad autonomy granted to the country’s politically powerful ultra-Orthodox minority.</p>
<p>Last year, many ultra-Orthodox communities flouted coronavirus safety restrictions, contributing to high outbreak rates in their communities and angering the broader secular public.</p>
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