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Teenage founders of the startup Enter+; from left to right Emmanual Leibovici, 17, the vice president; Moshe Schwartzberg, 16, the CEO; Ariel Safanov,16, and Elazar Zabari, 16 (Ariel Safanov)
November 12, 2018, 12:33 pm
Beach boys: High-schoolers’ startup aims to develop wrist band for water safety
The idea, still in concept stage, sees people at the beach getting a free wrist band that will let life guards track them via computer as they swim
By Shoshanna Solomon
Flooding in southern Israel due to heavy rains on October 25, 2018. (Screen capture: Twitter)
October 25, 2018, 4:41 pm
4-year-old drowns in flooding near Bedouin town
Doctors unable to save life of boy who was pulled from the water near Kuseife
By TOI staff
Men carry a coffin for one of the victims of the MV Nyerere passenger ferry on Ukara Island, Tanzania September 22, 2018. (AP Photo)
September 23, 2018, 7:58 am
Tanzania death toll raised to 209 as survivor found in capsized ferry
Man shut himself in engine room air pocket as boat overturned; officials say total number of dead may never be known
By TOM ODULA
A boat searches the Sea of Galilee for missing swimmer Moshe Shamir, 66, of Tel Aviv on September 15, 2018. (Screen capture: Maariv Online)
September 16, 2018, 7:45 pm
Body of 66-year-old man pulled from Sea of Galilee after search
Moshe Shamir of Tel Aviv was competing in a swimming contest on Saturday when he disappeared
By TOI staff
Illustrative photo of a swimming pool (AP/Hassan Ammar)
September 6, 2018, 10:33 am
Toddler dies a week after near-drowning in family pool
Doctors say 3-year-old Anael Cohen was admitted in critical condition; MDA reports surge in drownings this year
By TOI staff
An aerial view of the Haifa Port, northern Israel, June 14, 2014. (Shay Levi/Flash90)
August 29, 2018, 12:21 am
Diver killed during construction work at new Haifa port
Worker drowns while operating underwater equipment; another man in critical condition after near-drowning in Tel Aviv
By TOI staff
Medics attempt to resuscitate a man at an unauthorized beach in Ashdod on August 19, 2018. (Israel Police)
August 19, 2018, 8:42 pm
Man drowns at Ashdod beach after trying to save woman
28-year-old retrieved from water in critical condition, dies in hospital, bringing season’s death toll by drowning to 52
By Michael Bachner
Israelis swim at an unauthorized beach in Tel Aviv. (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
August 18, 2018, 1:31 pm
Paramedics say 2 drown in beaches off Israeli coast
Magen David Adom reports sharp increase in deaths by drowning this year compared to 2017
By TOI staff
TeNiya Jones was a sophomore at the University of Kentucky. (Facebook)
July 31, 2018, 5:09 am
Tourist found dead off Israeli coast named as University of Kentucky student
19-year-old TeNiya Jones was swept away by the current in the Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam after entering the water with two friends
By TOI staff
Paramedics on the Tel Aviv waterfront recover a 19-year-old woman's body, July 30, 2018. (Magen David Adom)
July 30, 2018, 8:07 am
American tourist’s body found after beach drowning
Young woman was pulled in by currents in Bat Yam; 21-year-old man’s body recovered after drowning in Sea of Galilee
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A Magen David Adom Ambulance in Tel Aviv. (screen capture: MDA)
July 14, 2018, 1:36 pm
Man dies at Tel Aviv beach
Police open investigation into circumstances surrounding death and work to identify fatality
By TOI staff
Neve Zohar beach on the Dead Sea, where an 88-year-old woman drowned on May 27, 2018. (Maya Harran: CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia Commons)
May 27, 2018, 7:16 pm
Woman, 88, drowns in Dead Sea
Emergency rescue personnel try to resuscitate her without success
By TOI staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of an infant boy who drowned to death in Ashdod, seen here during the burial ceremony at Kikar Hashabat, Jerusalem, on April 5, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 26, 2018, 6:03 pm
Mother accused of murder in baby’s drowning
Woman tells police the divine presence held her son underwater in hotel Jacuzzi; she thought he would emerge as messiah
By Stuart Winer
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of the infant who drowned to death in an Ashdod hotel, seen here during the burial ceremony in Jerusalem, April 5, 2018. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 23, 2018, 3:47 pm
Mother who admitted drowning baby son to be charged with murder
Woman earlier found by a psychiatrist unfit to stand trial is ordered held for a further five days
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Paramedics try unsuccessfully to resuscitate a man who drowned on a Tel Aviv beach on April 19, 2018. (Magen David Adom)
April 19, 2018, 4:09 pm
Man, 55, drowns at Tel Aviv beach on Independence Day
Israel’s holiday revels are not without injuries: Two teens hospitalized for alcohol poisoning, woman hurt after tree falls over, and 19-year-old motorcyclist injured in accident
By TOI staff
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