An 18-year-old Breslov Yeshiva Bochur R”L drowned in the Kinneret, on the last day of Chol Hamoed (Thursday).

Ariel Dovid Koslovsky Z”L, a resident of Mintz Street in Jerusalem, reportedly went swimming with two other boys in an unsupervised area of the Shikmim Beach.

Tragically, he was swept out in the waters, and was unable to swim any longer.

Rescue personnel including divers from from Police, United Hatzalah, Magen David Adom and others searched the waters for hours. Eventually, his body was located and retrieved.

The Levaya was held on Erev Yom Tov at Har HaMenuchos in Yerushalayim.

(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)