Update for 22:00
The body of a resident of Bethlehem, about 50 years old, who entered the sea at Meridian Beach in Haifa, after the rescue hours and disappeared, was recovered.
The Zaka organization informed Lahi Pa:
Haifa, Meridian Beach, about 50 years old drowned.
MDA paramedic Hodia Rosa told Haifa - Haifa News:
"In the evening, MDA's 101 hotline received a report of a man missing after entering the water at Meridian Beach and scans are being conducted to locate him. We arrived at the beach and prepared on the spot in order to provide him with medical treatment, but unfortunately, after prolonged searches, he was located in the water line north of the beach where he was without signs of life, and after medical examinations, we had no choice but to determine his death."
The original news - 20:15
Large forces of police, MDA, Haifa lifeguards, who were launched after the rescue hours and surfers who jumped into the water after sunset, all in an effort to locate a person, who apparently disappeared in the water at Meridian Beach in Haifa.
The effort is to try and locate it when the sun is disappearing and darkness is falling. By nightfall, a police helicopter also joined the search.
Watch the live broadcast from the beach:
Video - large forces now at Meridian Beach in Haifa in an attempt to locate a drowning (photo: Chai Pe in the field)
The Israel Police reported to Haifa - Haifa News:
The Israel Police have been conducting intensive searches for a number of hours for a resident of Bethlehem in his 50s, upon receiving a report at Moked 100 about a man who went to bathe at Meridian Beach in Haifa, appeared to be calling for help and has since disappeared.
In the meantime, the Israel Police conducts searches both in the air - using the helicopter of the aerial unit and in the sea - by the maritime policing system and the divers unit of the police, as well as along the coastline by patrol forces.
A very shocking case.
What the hell is a resident of Bethlehem looking for on the beach in Haifa?
What does he have to look for in us? Entered without permission and left without approval
A sad and painful event - what does the issue of confirmation have to do with it now?? We are human beings before any regrets that make us miserable
Every year summer winter autumn spring the same story in almost every beach in Israel from personal experience
An Arab man goes in to swim even though there is no lifeguard on the beach and he himself does not know the sea .. bad winds, drifting currents... it doesn't matter to him that he is in a frenzy on the sea, he has to davin' on his friends or the woman and Poof gets swept away, swallows water and dies
May everything go well.