Overview
- The 17-year-old, swept into the sea with his brother Friday evening, remains missing as dawn-to-dusk searches continue along Netanya’s Tsanz Beach.
- Rescue teams from the Israel Police Marine Unit, Fire and Rescue, Lahava divers, drone crews, and volunteers are working under a joint command center after overnight scans found no new leads.
- Police said they will keep deploying all available resources until the teen is found, and planners are shifting target areas based on fresh sea-current readings.
- Large prayer gatherings drew crowds at Jerusalem’s Western Wall and at the Chazon Ish’s gravesite in Bnei Brak, while the boys’ father, Rabbi Shlomo Spiegel, urged forgiveness and kinder speech during the Omer and shared his sons’ Hebrew names for prayer.
- In a separate incident in the Negev, 17-year-old Yehoshua Raam was found dead at the Ein Akev spring after a search that included a Lahava helicopter, with ZAKA preparing the body for external examination at the Abu Kabir forensic institute.