{"id":574977,"date":"2026-08-04T23:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574977\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T23:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T23:44:08","slug":"tragedy-jerusalem-resident-drowns-off-the-coast-of-limassol-cyprus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574977\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy: Jerusalem resident drowns off the coast of Limassol, Cyprus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">A 34-year-old Jerusalem resident drowned on Tuesday at a beach in the city of Limassol, Cyprus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">According to ZAKA, the Israeli man went for a swim with his family when he suddenly disappeared. Family members initiated a search along the shoreline and in the water that lasted roughly two hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">Local emergency services were called only after a powered paraglider passing overhead spotted him floating in the water. First responders retrieved him from the sea, but were forced to pronounce him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">ZAKA reported that the organization is working alongside the Israeli Foreign Ministry and Cypriot authorities to assist the family and finalize the necessary arrangements to repatriate the deceased&#8217;s body to Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" album=\"true\" data-v-b6a56682=\"\" data-v-45890e8d-s=\"\">ZAKA Operations Deputy Director Chaim Weingarten described the event as a &#8220;devastating tragedy,&#8221; adding that the organization remains in close contact with the family and is working to bring the deceased home for burial as swiftly as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old Jerusalem resident drowned on Tuesday at a beach in the city of Limassol, Cyprus. According to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2115,85,46,125666,105508,43,106963],"class_list":["post-574977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-cyprus","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israelis-abroad","tag-limassol","tag-news","tag-zaka"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}