62-year-old man drowns while swimming at unauthorized beach
Man pulled out of the water at Maayan Zvi Beach, near Haifa; resuscitation efforts by paramedics failed
A man drowned on Saturday while swimming at an undeclared beach with no lifeguard.
The 62-year-old man was pulled out of the water by beachgoers at Maayan Zvi Beach, south of Haifa, and subsequent resuscitation efforts by paramedics failed.
Nearly 30 people have died of drowning so far this year, with the beach season far from over.
Two weeks ago, Dalia Fadila, a groundbreaking educator in the Arab community, drowned by a beach in Herzliya.
Figures from a Knesset report last month showed that most of those who died in the past 13 months drowned in places where it was prohibited to go in the water, or when there were no lifeguards on duty, in a trend also seen in previous years.
There are 156 authorized beaches along Israel’s 306.4 kilometers (190 miles) of coastline, including along the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Sea of Galilee and the Dead Sea.