The story took place on Sunday, January 27, 2019, off a Herzliya beach, as a chareidi man jumped into the water to save a person in distress.
It was 10:13AM when the call came into Magen David Adom for a surfer who was injured after striking a breakwater south of the Herzliya Marina. Hatzoloh reported that a 42-year-old male was treated and listed in moderate condition at the time of transport.
The dramatic portion of the call was the rescue, which was publicized by photographer Nissim Aton, explaining a chareidi-appearing male wearing a long suit was battling the waves deep out at sea.
The chareidi man came to surf and after a short period of time, he realized conditions were not right for surfing, too dangerous, as he headed to shore and dried himself off and sat down and relaxed. After a few moments, while sitting and relaxing, he noticed a surfer who was drowning. Without missing a beat, the chareidi man jumped into the water to save him, and B’chasdei Hashem, he succeeded.
It was Aton who summoned MDA as he was trying to document the events. Another photographer, Dror Ezra, has more or less the same story, saying he does not know the name of the chareidi man who acted, but without a doubt, he saved the surfer’s life.
Ezra’s Facebook post earned thousands of ‘likes’ and then, the hunt began towards learning the identity of the anonymous chareidi life-safer.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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11 Responses
Isnt that what frum yiddin are supposed to do?
Is it also a special kiddish hashem when a yid says havdalla after shabbos.? Yes it is but no one seems to get to excited about it.
mi kamcha Yisroel does what he has to do and leaves doesn’t wait around for attention. A real tzadik.
@take 2
I almost never comment, but you ma’am are a pathetic joke… An anti-orthodox pathetic joke. With all your moronic nonsensical comments there is no way anyone can be convinced what they are writing makes sense. That’s how I came to my pathetic joke conclusion.
There’s now way it can be anything other than a pathetic joke, right? Even someone blinded by misguided hate.
“Is it also a special kiddish hashem when a yid says havdalla after shabbos.? ”
Yes. Especially if this erhliche” surfin-Yid” doesn’t even take time to change out out of his wetsuit and says “hamavdil” with the water dripping off his tallis katan….
I’m really not sure I follow this whole article and comments. Is the hero the Charedi guy in the first photo on thre right calmly walking away by the yellow colored fence?
@take 2
I almost never comment, but you ma’am are a pathetic joke… An anti-orthodox pathetic joke. With all your moronic nonsensical comments there is no way anyone can be convinced what they are writing makes sense. That’s how I came to my pathetic joke conclusion.
There’s now way it can be anything other than a pathetic joke, right? Even someone blinded by misguided hate.
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Maybe if you learned to spell i would know what’s bothering you.
You really seemed very very lost in lakewood. Hatzlocho
@take 2
Thank you for proving my point. Your intelligence and legacy grows with every comment that you post.
P. S. You spelled hatzlacha incorrectly.
hey, we have kiddush hashem here, we should learn from it,
this is not the place to insult a fellow jew!
gadol hadorah – yes it’s the chareidy walking away in the first photo, he has his hand on his head because he lost his kippah in the water when he jumped in to save the drowning surfer.
i can imagine he was left alone to leave calmly before the people realized he was the hero-only the photographer who watched the scene from begining knew it was him the croud came a little late, this is why they don’t have his identity-he left before they can ask.
“…..Hatzlocho…”
“….You spelled hatzlacha incorrectly…..”
It’s a matter of dialect. Some say potato, some say potaahto.
I’m puzzled why there are no photos of the rescue incident since the photographer was right there.
There are 2 of the yungerman face -up in the water but right at the rocky beach, and one showing him walking away from the group all alone and nobody paying him any attention.
@take 2 and lost in Lakewood
sorry to be so blunt but you both are commenting like little kids.
making fun of each other because of spelling mistakes?????
and I have to add that this man made a big kiddush Hashem in front of a lot of none frum jews ! and one should make a big deal out of it @take2
“Lost in lakewood” just made the biggest kidush hashem. He actually made an asher yatzar after he used the facilities .
I think he needs a round of applause. He must be from the gedolim or is it the ketanim?