A 14-year-old Charedi boy, who was vacationing with his family near the kibbutz of Degania Aleph, some 10 kilometers south of Tevaria, jumped off of a bridge and into the Jordan river and hit his head. The boy suffered severe head trauma and lost consciousness immediately.
Bystanders who were in the area, together with the boy’s family members, pulled the boy from the water and onto the beach and alerted emergency response teams. United Hatzalah volunteers and Magen David Adom personnel arrived and began performing CPR on the boy in an attempt to stabilize him. He was originally in critical condition as the EMS responders treated him. Following an elongated CPR attempt at the beach, it was decided to transport the boy to Ziv Medical Center while still undergoing CPR. An MDA medical helicopter was called and airlifted the boy to the Medical Center where doctors in the trauma center were able to revive the boy to the point where his pulse returned. Treatment continued while he was still classified as being in critical condition.
United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Yair Nachum was one of the first responders at the scene and said following the incident: “When I arrived at the scene I saw bystanders performing CPR on the boy while they were receiving instructions over the phone from United Hatzalah’s dispatcher. With the assistance of a paramedic from United Hatzalah and other first responders, we performed CPR on the boy for a lengthy period of time, following which he was transported to the hospital in critical condition.”
Later on in the evening, a Spokesperson for the Ziv Medical Center announced that all efforts had failed and that the boy passed away in spite of every effort by the medical staff to save his life. The boy’s parents and siblings were with him when he died and the social worker of the hospital was assisting them.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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12 Responses
so sad, but every bein hazmanim we have to read about charadi tragedies. so sad!
BDE. Horrible.
@luckshun Was that a very thinly veiled attempt to blame them? As if they’re some sort of lower class, mouth breathing cavemen who surely know next to nothing about how to stay safe and have a tendency to get themselves killed? Cuz I sure hope not.
Utilize this opportunity to internalize the famous phrase in 39 days from now:- מי יחיה ומי ימות וכו
Its a terrible tragedy, whatever segment of the tzibur the niftar was from. I’m certain there are many more accidental deaths during the summer months among the secular communities but the story here is a logical consequence of the YWN readership. I don’t think the story and the comments were meant in any way to “blame” anyone or a subtle commentary on the absence of outdoor survival skills among chareidim etc. BDE and may we not hear any more such stories.
> Toi
he problem is that the Hareidi claim the moral high-ground over everyone else. So when they fall short of being higher than everyone else, they have no one but themselves to blame for being looked down upon more than anyone else would have been looked down upon for the same actions.
georgeg
you must have some guilty complex to state that. why dont you claim moral high ground. we wont mind. but the truth
a young boy died…. boruch dayan haemes!!
can we stop analyzing and fighting!!
> grafpatotsky
Exactly backwards. When someone dies we are required to ask why. It is a tradition as ancient as any that we have.
I don’t know if you understand what I wrote, but I most certainly have no idea what you are saying.
Sorry, my remark
“I don’t know if you understand what I wrote, but I most certainly have no idea what you are saying.”
was addressed to grafpatotsky
Sorry. My copy and paste is giving me problems.
“I don’t know if you understand what I wrote, but I most certainly have no idea what you are saying.”
was adderssed to shimen