BREAKING NEWS

Two drown in swimming incidents around Israel

A 20-year-old woman drowned while swimming at the Jaffa coast on Tuesday. A Magen David Adom team alerted to the scene was unable to revive the woman, who had been pulled to land by passers-by, and was forced to pronounce her death. Earlier, a man drowned while swimming with his son at Ashkelon's beach. The boy was safely pulled out of the water, but the man was evacuated in critical condition before passing away at Barzilai Hospital.