It was a tragic weekend on Israeli beaches as 10 drowning incidents were reported, of which six were fatal.
A 50-year-old man died on a Haifa beach; a 72-year-old man at Dor Beach; a 57-year-old woman at Ma’agen Michal Beach; a 60-year-old man at Sderot Yam Beach; a 40-year-old man at Kiryat Sanz Beach; and a 10-year-old boy at a Tel Aviv beach. There were at least four non-fatal drowning incidents reported.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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8 Responses
This sounds like a morning-after murder report from Chicago!
Are there licensed and certified LIFEGUARDS on all Israeli beaches? What is the story of these fatalities?
I think it is time to reexamine the lifeguard standards. These are yiddishe neshamos lost!!
Do to budget issues there are not enough lifeguards and some beaches don’t have any life guards they even have a red flags indicating that it is safe to swim.
Also the beaches closes at 5:00pm even in the summer.
I think its time for introspection. When a tragedy happens to people in the world, it means that WE need to do Teshuva!!! It is Elul!!!
To No. 5
Every year during the weeks before the yamim noraim there are hysterical posters like yourself who cry gevalt about every story of an accident or tragedy and announce its time for yidden to do tshuvah. You remind me of the graduate student in statistics who claimed that ice cream sales in Chicago were contributing to a spike in murder rates (because of the high correlation factor. Obviously he had not yet taken in a course I multivariate statistics since the real cause of the spike was the hot summer weather when gang activity and drug sales peaked and murders also peaked. Needless to say, ice cream sales also tend to increase in the hot summer months. We should be thinking about tshuvah year around, not just when we read a YWN story about a drowning or automobile accident in Elul.
Gadolhodorah, your right but at the same time moeisrael is right as well. If something bad happens it happens for a reason! Indeed it’s always a good time to do Teshuva! moeisrael is just giving us a reminder of that fact!
Gadolhadorah’s point has validity. People complain about facebook comments posting about every move (when I ate, when I woke up, where I took a walk to). It becomes repetitive and old to continue to announce that teshuva needs to be done because of a particular tragedy. It almost reminds me of the Goyim who announce “Forgive me Father, for I have sinned greatly”. Perform mitzvos without looking for prestige, and that will be the noble solution