82-year-old man drowns in the Dead Sea

• Date: 15 June 2021
• Published date: 15 June 2021
• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

United Hatzalah volunteers responded to the incident and attempted to resuscitate him for around an hour to no avail, forcing medics to declare him dead at the scene.

"I was on vacation together with a number of other female EMTs from Rehovot at Ein Bokek, when we received an alert from United Hatzlah's Dispatch and Command Center alerting us to a man who [had apparently] drowned at the beach," said United Hatzalah EMT Penina Gantz, who was one of the first responders at the scene. "We rushed to the scene...