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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

search and rescue (SAR) operations

An Israel Police rescue team at the Yitav Stream, Jordan Valley, on August 1, 2023 (Courtesy: Police spokesperson)
August 2, 2023, 1:42 am
Man found dead after family becomes separated during West Bank hike
Rescue teams locate Binyamin Praga’s 2 children and their grandfather after hikers split up after dark in Jordan Valley; deceased man’s brother died in similar circumstances
By ToI Staff
IDF rescuers work to pull a pair of Palestinian construction workers from under collapsed rubble in the Neve Daniel settlement on May 31, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
May 31, 2023, 11:20 pm
IDF rescuers pull 2 Palestinians from collapsed settlement construction site
Workers evacuated to Jerusalem hospital in serious and moderate condition after two-hour operation
By ToI Staff
Lt. Col. Golan Landsberg, left, stands with other members of his search-and-rescue unit outside a collapsed building in Marash, Turkey, on February 8, 2023. (Israel Defense Forces)
February 10, 2023, 5:43 am
Israeli rescuer who helped in ’99 earthquakes returns to Turkey to save lives
Lt. Col. Golan Landsberg’s teams have pulled several people from the rubble since arriving early Tuesday morning, including a 2-year-old boy and a married couple, he says
By Judah Ari Gross
Israeli and local rescue teams working at the site of a building collapse in Marash, Turkey, February 8, 2023. (Judah Ari Gross/Times of Israel)
February 8, 2023, 10:25 pm
In devastated Turkey, rescuers battle cold, concrete to save those trapped by quake
Whole neighborhoods of Kahramanmaraş were flattened in Monday’s tremors; professional teams and local residents fight the clock to pull people from the rubble before it’s too late
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A military helicopter holding a 669 Search & Rescue crewman and a stranded hiker over a flooded riverbed in southern Israel, November 9, 2018. (Courtesy: IDF)
June 18, 2022, 4:11 pm
Elderly man drowns in Jordan River; woman rescued after falling into Banias Stream
Three others hurt on Haifa, Ashkelon and Tel Aviv beaches, latest in series of water-related accidents; on Friday, a 15-year-old died in hospital after drowning in the Jordan River
By ToI Staff
A picture taken from Cyprus' warship 'Ioannides' shows a Royal Navy Lynx helicopter taking part in the Multinational CIMIC Exercise, ARGONAUT 2019, Search and Rescue (SAR) Operations, a rescue drill in which the militaries of Cyprus, Greece, France, Britain, Israel, Germany and the US participated on May 30, 2019. (Iakovos Hatzistavrou/AFP)
May 21, 2022, 5:06 am
Israel joins 6 other countries in Cyprus to drill evacuations from conflict zones
Cyprus has billed the event as one of the most important civilian evacuation exercises in the world
By AP
A operator's screen showing a group of school students who were found using a drone after they went missing during a school hike in Nahal Og, March 28, 2022. (Israel Police)
March 28, 2022, 10:09 pm
Dozens of children go missing on desert hike, found with drones
Over 40 students in 5th to 8th grade separated from main group during school trip to Nahal Og in Dead Sea area
By ToI Staff
Residents watch civil defense workers and local authorities attempting to rescue a 5-year-old boy who fell into a hole near the town of Bab Berred near Chefchaouen, on February 4, 2022, in Ighrane. (AP Photo/Mosa'ab Elshamy)
February 5, 2022, 8:22 am
Bid to free 5-year-old Moroccan boy from well reaches nerve-wracking final stages
Rayan fell some 32 meters down the empty shaft on Tuesday afternoon; rescuers managed to deliver oxygen and water to the child but his condition is unknown; concerns of landslide
By Hicham Raffie, Fadel Senna and Kaouthar Oudrhiri
IDF Home Front Command soldiers train with US firefighters who worked at the Surfside condo collapse with them, Novemer 2021 (courtesy IDF)
November 13, 2021, 5:00 am
After Surfside tragedy, US team visits Israel to develop joint rescue doctrine
American firefighters spend five days training and learning with IDF team they met amid the rubble in Florida
By Lazar Berman
Search-and-rescue forces extract an IDF soldier who fell in a hole during a nighttime training exercise in central Israel, on September 22, 2021. (Etzion Search and Rescue Unit)
September 23, 2021, 4:51 pm
IDF to probe why soldiers keep falling in pits during training
Investigation announced after trainee for elite Maglan unit requires large rescue operation to extract him from hole, in latest such incident
By Judah Ari Gross
People search through the rubble of what used to be the Manguier Hotel after the earthquake hit on August 14, 2021 in Les Cayes, southwest Haiti. (Stanley LOUIS / AFP)
August 15, 2021, 9:37 pm
Death toll in massive Haiti earthquake jumps to at least 724
1,500 buildings were destroyed and over 5,000 damaged, trapping hundreds under rubble and leaving at least 2,800 people injured
By Amelie Baron
An aerial view shows damaged buildings close to the Ezine Stream after deadly flash floods broke its banks in Bozkurt town in the district of Kastamonu, in the Black Sea region of Turkey on August 14, 2021. (STR / AFP)
August 15, 2021, 4:55 pm
Israel offers to dispatch team to Turkey as it battles major flooding
At least 55 people killed, dozens of homes collapse due to flash floods in the Black Sea regions in the country’s north
By Judah Ari Gross and Agencies
Police search and rescue teams use a drone with a thermal camera to try and find two people who were swept out to sea in the Dead Sea on July 23, 2021 (Israel Police)
July 23, 2021, 4:21 am
Two missing Palestinian youths found safe in the Dead Sea after lengthy searches
Two were apparently swept out on the water by strong winds; rescue services find them 2km from shore after 8 hours
By ToI Staff
Rescue workers search in the rubble at the Champlain Towers South condominium, Monday, June 28, 2021, in the Surfside area of Miami. (AP/Lynne Sladky)
June 29, 2021, 2:32 am
Death toll in condo collapse rises to 11 as crews keep up perilous rescue dig
Despite fading chances of finding survivors, search and rescue teams maintain frantic pace of clearing shaky mounds of rubble as officials insist they are not losing hope
By TERRY SPENCER and Russ Bynum
Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 25, 2021 in Surfside, Florida (JOE RAEDLE / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
June 26, 2021, 3:25 am
How is technology aiding Miami rescuers’ search?
Drones, sonar, highly sensitive microphones and more are being used by teams looking for survivors in the oceanside condominium that collapsed
By MAE ANDERSON, Matt O'Brien and Frank Bajak
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