Netanyahu on missing student in flash flood: ‘We are all praying for better news’

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is “praying for better news” as search and rescue teams continue to search for a missing student caught in a flash flood in the south of Israel.

Fourteen others from the group have been rescued, nine of them currently in critical condition.

“I send strength the security and rescue services that are working to save lives and find those missing in this terrible tragedy,” Netanyahu says.

“We are all praying for better news,” he says.

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