Missing man found dead in the Kinneret
After Natan Hajani went missing in the Tiberias Springs Friday, his new wife, who 18 years ago saw her father drown before her eyes, learns that her husband was pulled dead from the Kinneret; 'My heart is broken to pieces.'
Since Hajani was reported missing, rescue teams launched a huge search effort which included the use of divers and sonar systems. After pulling his body from Israel’s northern water jewel, Magen David Adom teams from the Jordan Valley declared his death before his body was officially identified by his family.
Hajani and his wife Mor travelled at the end of the week to the Kinneret with their friends and before they arrived at the hotel they decided to stop at the Coco Hut beach near Tiberias Hot Springs. Natan, who was with his friends in a boat hundreds of meters from the coast, jumped into the water and never returned.
It is not the first time Mor has been struck by a tragedy of this kind. Eighteen years ago, she watched her father drown in a pool in Yehud.
On a post she shared with her friends on Facebook, Mor described her distress and made an emotional appeal for help in locating her husband.
“Dear Israel. I beg you for your help. I lost my father at a young age in a pool and now for the second time I am going through the same nightmare with the love of my life—my new husband who married me three months ago,” she wrote. “My heart is broken to pieces and the tears don’t stop falling. I beg anyone who can to come and help in the search. I just want to bring my husband back to me.”
Speaking in an interview with Ynet, Mor’s family said: “It has simply broken our hearts. She saw her father drown right before her eyes and now her husband. Everything has come back and she is crying non stop. For four days she has been in an utter state of uncertainty. She isn’t eating or sleeping.”
In April, two bodies were found in the Kinneret on the sixth day of searches for three young men who went missing amid treacherous currents.
