Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem announced the death of the toddler who drowned in a pool at a guesthouse in Sdot Micha earlier this evening. The child, a 4-year-old boy, was airlifted to the hospital in critical condition.
The 4-year-old boy who drowned in a pool at a guesthouse in Sdot Micha, in the Mateh Yehuda region, was pronounced dead at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital shortly after 19:00 Jerusalem time on Monday evening. The hospital confirmed the death, bringing a tragic conclusion to the incident that began hours earlier.
The sequence of events unfolded through the afternoon. At 17:42 Jerusalem, initial reports indicated medical teams performing CPR on a toddler who had drowned in a pool. Magen David Adom confirmed the child, initially reported as age 2, was in critical condition after the drowning in the Mateh Yehuda Regional Council. By 18:03, MDA reported the child was being evacuated by helicopter to Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital while receiving CPR. N12 reporter Inbar Twizer later published footage of the helicopter evacuation, and The Zioneer reported on the airlift at 18:37 Jerusalem. The child's age was subsequently corrected to 4 years old. The source of information evolved from initial unconfirmed reports to an official MDA spokesperson, and then to on-the-ground documentation by N12.
The Zioneer has reported on multiple drowning incidents this summer, including the death of an infant girl in a private pool in Kfar Saba on July 17, and a child who drowned in a pool in Holon on July 20, underscoring the persistent risk of pool drownings across Israel.
No further details regarding the circumstances of the drowning have been released at this time.
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