A brutal 24 hours left six Israelis dead, including four children and teenagers, in a string of tragedies at home and abroad. The deadly incidents unfolded within hours on Sunday and the night before, leaving families and entire communities in deep mourning during the summer break. The disasters included drownings, a fall from a cliff, a child left in a car, and a fatal crash in Judea and Samaria.
1+The latest tragedy struck Sunday on the road to Maale Adumim in the Judaean Mountains, where a vehicle carrying three men overturned. Two passengers, both around 45, were critically injured and pronounced dead at the scene by rescue teams, while a third man, around 40, was rushed to the hospital in serious condition. Earlier, a 17-year-old boy was killed after falling from a great height during an activity near Keshet Cave in the Western Galilee, where medics were forced to pronounce him dead on site.
Hours earlier, the search in the Jordan River ended with grim news when Elchanan Karni, a 12-year-old boy from Modiin Illit, was found dead after drowning following a fall from an inflatable raft. In another devastating incident Sunday in Lod, 5-year-old Betzalel David Giler died after being found unconscious inside a locked vehicle. The boy was rushed to Shamir-Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in critical condition, suffering from severe heatstroke, but doctors were unable to save him.
1+The deadly 24 hours began Saturday night during a family vacation in Mexico. Shalom Arush, a 4-year-old boy from Jerusalem and grandson of Rabbi Shalom Arush, drowned in a hotel pool near the town of San José del Cabo. Members of ZAKA’s international unit worked quickly with local Mexican authorities to prevent an autopsy and completed the necessary procedures to bring the boy back to Israel for burial, as the entire community rallies to support the grieving family.