The toddler Yosef Hananal Lev, the late two-year-old son of Rabbi Yonatan Lev and his wife Sara Dina, drowned last Thursday in a home pool in the ultra-orthodox Yishuv • Tonight he died at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center
Tragedy in the ultra-Orthodox settlement of Midas in Gush Etzion: The late Yosef Hananal Lev, a two-year-old toddler who drowned last Thursday in a home pool in the settlement, died tonight at the Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center.
The toddler is the son of Rabbi Yonatan Lev, a graduate of Yeshiva Netivot Hochma-Wolfson, and his wife Sara Dina, residents of the ultra-Orthodox settlement in the Gush Etzion Regional Council.
The toddler drowned on Thursday evening in a private pool and his condition was described as critical. Rescuers who were called to the scene performed CPR on him and evacuated him by helicopter to Hadassah Hospital, where the doctors fought for his life. For the sake of his family members, he does not let them determine his death.
MDA paramedic Natanel Chirofa and MDA senior medic Danny Rotenberg said: “When we arrived at the house, we saw the toddler near the pool, unconscious after being pulled from the water. We performed advanced resuscitation operations that included breathing, massages, administering medications and using a device from the past (a defibrillator) and we handed him over to the military medical team that landed nearby and evacuated him in critical condition to the hospital while continuing to perform resuscitation operations.”
The Hadassah Medical Center reported after the evacuation: “A two-year-old toddler who drowned in a home children’s pool was taken to the Hadassah Ein Kerem trauma unit. The condition of the toddler is very difficult. After being stabilized in the trauma unit, he was transferred to the pediatric intensive care unit for treatment while being ventilated and sedated.”
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