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Floods Devastate Israel
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Without warning,
disaster strikes,
killing 11.
ARIEH O'SULLIVAN
Special to The Jewish News
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t least 11 people were
killed, dozens were injured
and four children were
missing in flash floods or
accidents caused by sudden rain-
storms last Shabbat in Israel.
A 43-year-old man, Waif Abu
Aida, was killed while driving a
pickup truck that was washed off a
road in the Nevatim area.
Six other people died Saturday
when a van skidded on slick
pavement, swerving into the
opposite lane and plow-
ing into a large truck
near Gush Etzion,
police said. Five were
believed to be Romanian
workers.
Another four people
died in the Dead Sea
area. Three were killed
when their car went off
the road after the side of
a highway collapsed in
the rain. The car over-
turned and was swept
away in a flooded
stream, officials said.
Due to the high
winds, a 24-year-old woman fell 40
feet from a cliff in Qumran on
Friday evening. Her body was found
the next morning.
The rest of her group survived,
some by clinging to the face of a
cliff, while others found refuge in
caves before being rescued by sol-
diers in the morning.
Israel Defense Force helicopters
had difficulty landing in the area
Friday night because of the storm,
but managed to drop blankets and
water to the stranded hikers so they
could wait out the night.
"We found 21 of them in a cave
and were able to bring them blan-
kets and coffee," said Col. Efraim
Moshkato, commander of the Jordan
Valley Brigade.
"Eight others were scattered on
the mountain side, grasping crevices
and holding on despite the rushing
water. We managed to rescue them
with the helicopter. One was hospi-
talized for hypothermia," Moshkato
said.
Dozens of other stranded hikers c
also were rescued from raging floods
by the IDF.
The Judea and Samaria police
chief, Cmdr. Yossi Sadvon, opened
an investigation into why the
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ted the hike to go ahead in Qumran
despite warnings there could be
flooding in the wadi.
The IDF also renewed warnings 0
to hikers in the Jordan Valley and
Judea and Samaria areas to coordi-
nate their plans with security forces,
and to restrict group sizes to 15.
Troops.; police and volunteers
started fanning out in the Dead Sea
area Friday evening when the moun-
tain runoff started plummeting
down the wadis. IDF rescue vehicles
also brought in fresh
water to Kibbutz Kalya
after it lost its water
supply because of the
Heavy
rains
caused
flash floods
in desert
areas.
Aryeh O'Sullivan writes for the
Jerusalem Post.
storms.
In Jerusalem, divers
and a helicopter helped -1
search for an 8-year-old
Palestinian boy who fell
into a sewage canal
while playing with a IT'
friend in the Wadi Joz
area.
Three Beduin girls
were missing in a hilly
area north of
Beersheba, rescue offi-
cials said.
Storms also flooded dozens of
homes and destroyed large tracts of
farm land in Jericho, where 12 peo-
ple were injured.
An IDF helicopter rescued a
woman and her eight children in the
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village of Yatir, south of Hebron.
The army said that rough weather
forced the closure of the Allenby
Bridge crossing to Jordan, after ter-
minal buildings were damaged.
In Sinai, thousands of holiday
makers trying to return home from
Egypt were turned away at the Taba
border crossing, closed by flooding.
Sukkot were ripped apart in many
parts of the country, their fabric or c,_,
wooden walls torn by the winds.
In Jerusalem, heavy rain fell
Saturday afternoon, and firefighters
helped bail out 10 flooded apart-
ments.
Thousands of tourists were
forced to turn back from the Galilee
area.
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