Drowning

Titanic tragedy of prominent Jewish couple resurfaces in record auction

Isidor Straus, the Jewish businessman who co-founded Macy’s, drowned with his wife in the Titanic disaster. His gold pocket watch was found with them, marking their tragic end in freezing water.

 Digital art of the RMS Titanic at sunset.
Sagi Mor and his family.

Thai authorities find remains of missing Israeli tourist Sagi Mor after he drowned while saving son

A woman kisses a child as they line up to register at an evacuation center as they prepare for Super Typhoon Fung-Wong, Manila, Philippines, November 9, 2025.

Super Typhoon Fung-wong slams into Philippines, two dead

Magen David Adom teams at the Dead Sea, September 14, 2025.

70-year-old man drowns in Dead Sea


Teach your child to swim

Someone should really launch a campaign under the heading of “Save a Child’s Life by Teaching Him/Her to Swim.”

Boys leap into a public swimming pool in Baghdad, Iraq, Wedn

Netanyahu promises 'answers' to parents of drowned victims - recording

10 teens died in a flood during a hiking trip with their Bnei Zion camp. A recorded conversation between then and the PM will be revealed on Monday.

Photos of six of the victims of the flash flooding in the Tzafit river, April 26, 2018

Small child dies after mother allegedly drowns him in a bathtub

The boy's mother was arrested by Police Tuesday morning and questioned.

Running water.

Kentucky student missing after swimming accident in Israel

TeNiya Elnora Jones, 19, was swimming in the Mediterranean Sea just fter midnight Saturday with two other students when they got caught up in a strong current.

Israelis stand still at the Tel Aviv beach as the Holocaust Remembrance Day siren is sounded

'Today is D-Day': Rescuers begin mission to extract Thai cave boys

To escape, the children must dive through dark, narrow passageways sometimes no more than two-feet (0.6- meter) wide, that have challenged some of the world’s leading cave divers.

Divers walk inside Tham Luang cave complex, where 12 schoolboys and their soccer coach are trapped inside a flooded cave, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 7, 2018.

Ashdod mother suspected of murder in drowning of baby

The woman said she had a "divine revelation" in which she believed she was told to baptize the baby.

Ambulance

One month old baby drowns in jacuzzi at southern Israel hotel

The drowning marks the second deadly incident in the span of a month.

Magen David Adom ambulances

Man drowns in Jerusalem mikva

The circumstances of the man's drowning are still unknown.

A mikve, the Jewish ritual bath [Illustrative]