Woman drowns after falling from jetty on Tel Aviv beach
Emelia Yanai, 48, fell into water from pier while walking with husband; Musa Awad-Amash, 11, drowned on Wednesday at water park in Tel Aviv.
By Fadi Eyadat and Roni Singer-HerutiEmelia Yanai from Ramat Gan drowned off the beach in Tel Aviv Wednesday night after she fell from a jetty into the water below.
The body of the 48-year-old woman washed up on the beach two hours later and she was pronounced dead by paramedics on the scene.
Police have launched an investigation into the incident.
On Wednesday, 11-year-old Musa Awad-Amash drowned in a pool at the 'Meimadion' water park at the Hayarkon Park in Tel Aviv.
Police have detained the park's manager and the pool's lifeguard, on suspicions of negligence in relation to the boy's death.
The boy's father stated that while his son was swimming, he noticed him struggling in the water. The father then called for help, but there were no lifeguards at the pool at the time.
Bystanders pulled the boy from the water and began performing CPR, but to no avail.
The father stated that the park's lifeguards took far too long to reach the location.
A preliminary police investigations into the death is focusing on the possibility that Awad-Amash was riding on a water slide when he suffered a blow of some sort, or that another child jumped on him while he was in the water.
Park authorities have not issued a statement on the incident.
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I am a swimmer and have gone swimming in a good number of pools here in Israel. I am amazed with the lack of professionalism displayed at public pools by the "lifeguards" who rarely do their job. I am, however, even more amazed that we don't have more drownings than we currently do.
Where were the life guards? How come one was not stationed at the end of the slide where it enters the pool incase someone has trouble? Why aren't these water parks under stricter supervision by a licensing board? I wish to send my condolences to the boy's family and I hope they sue the owners of the water park for their neglience in this matter, the slide should not have been opened without proper life guard supervision! If there are not enough life guards to maintain proper visual supervison of a pool area then you don't open the entire area for swimming! The owners of the pool just wanted the money,the lack of supervision is their fault, so sue them to prevent another incident like this from happening,maybe even revolk their license until they comply with proper supervision rules!
So where are the lifeguards when you need them - chatting up the chics, drinking coffee and playing sheshbesh ?