Rescue teams are searching for a 14-year-old who was probably carried away by a flood near the northern Druze villages of Yarka and Jat on Thursday.
The youth disappeared after he and a friend tried crossing a powerful stream on an ATV. Rescue forces located the ATV and the friend who was riding the vehicle alongside the missing teen.
A spokesperson for the Israel Fire and Rescue Services in the Shore District said that despite the large presence of firefighting and rescue teams at the scene, the teen's condition remains unknown.
"Firefighting and rescue forces are currently working with the assistance of Special Rescue Unit troops, the Lehava Central Fire Unit and divers to locate a boy who wanted to cross the spring on an ATV together with his friend. The friend was found, but not the second youth."