An 18-year-old yeshiva bochur tragically passed away after being pulled unconscious from the Kineret and rushed to a nearby hospital with CPR in progress. Doctors valiantly fought to save his life, but were sadly unable to.
“When we arrived at the scene, we saw people taking a 18-year-old unconscious, breathless, and pulseless young man out of the Kineret, on a kayak,” Magen Davod Adom EMTs reported. “He had been missing for about an hour. We moved him to the beach and immediately started advanced and prolonged resuscitation efforts. We then transported him to the hospital where doctors fought for his life.”
The bochur was identified as Mordechai Shlesinger Z”L, a student at a Ger yeshiva in Bnei Brak.
Due to the nature of the incident, United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit has been deployed to the area to provide emotional and psychological stabilization to the eyewitnesses and family members of the victim.
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more then 100 jewish people has been Drown in the last 5 years in unsafe beaches or lakes, we need to stop this danger behavior. one rabbi told me that to swim in a beach or lake without life vest is like committing suicide.
here is a link from last year (in just eight months, 248 drownings, 40 deaths just in isreal)
https://www.israelhayom.com/2021/10/05/bathing-season-officially-over-ends-with-248-drownings-40-deaths/
I am looking at the picture in this article. It appears to me that this drowning happened towards the end of the afternoon.
During the past 30 years, there were a number of drownings and also boat accidents.
If I recall correctly, every single time there was an issue with the Kinneret, it was in the afternoon or evening.
I do not ever recall an issue in the morning.
I have a funny feeling that in the afternoon, the Kinneret acts very strangely and maybe there are underwater waves (internal waves). You can google “internal waves”.
It sometimes can be dangerous to go into the Kinneret during the afternoon hours.
https://www.jpost.com/israel/family-outing-to-kinneret-turns-to-tragedy-34315
Once I was wind surfing in a bay opposite Atlantic City. I was very experienced in windsurfing. On this day, which was sunny, warm and a very calm sea, I fell off the rig and attempted to regain the surf board. Unfortunately, the tide carried the sail and board away from my swimming efforts–I became very tired and tried to stand-up in the water which was too deep.
I had no life vest on and started to panic. After several moments, I floated on my back to regain my strength. Eventually, I made it to shore and retrieved my rig.
My lesson from this fright was to always, always wear a life vest under ANY circumstances while in the sea.
The sea is treacherous and even under calm perfect weather you can easily lose your life.
B’vah’cha’cha, always be prudent in swimming sailing or surfing of any kind — wear a life vest !!!!
A goy,
Gerry Mullen
not that it matters, but it was a litvish bachur, not a boy from gur
@deney your rabbi is a huge idiot. now swimming is assur? Whats next, walking outside is assur because of how many people die from having cars crash into the sidewalk? Instead of telling people to say its off limits, how about we deal with the problem directly of people not being able to swim. The gemara in kiddushin says its a CHIYUV to teach children how to swim
We were there last week, out on the water. It seemed so safe! I’m so sorry, his poor family, may they be comforted.
I don’t know how you got your info but it is way out. He is a shiur beis talmid in Nesivos Chochmah otherwise known as Woolfsons yeshivah in Yerushalayim and he was never in Ger