Drowning

France reports 40 drowning deaths during severe heatwave

A deadly heatwave in France has led to around 40 drowning deaths as people seek relief in unsafe swimming spots, officials said on Tuesday.

Vacationers enjoy swimming at the beach of Le Bourget lake in Le Bourget-du-Lac, central eastern France, on August 8, 2025.
Zaka volunteers

Issachar Dov Spiegel pronounced dead after Netanya drowning, brother still missing

Uriah Sarusi, the IDF reservist who drowned in the Jordan River on March 24, 2024.

IDF reservist drowns in Jordan River in attempt to save his son

 Digital art of the RMS Titanic at sunset.

Titanic tragedy of prominent Jewish couple resurfaces in record auction


Children are dying because parents are on their phones

Safety experts from around the globe have issued warnings time and again that drowning is most often silent.

Pool

3-year-old almost drowns in Eilat, paramedics perform CPR

The toddler is now at Yoseftal Hospital where she is in a critical condition.

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Va. Orthodox community ‘praying for miracle’ after rabbi swept out to sea

“We have received encouragement and blessings for strength from the Gedolei Haposkim and some of the holiest people in our generation,” Rabbi Sender Haber wrote.

US Coast Guard

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.

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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