Moti Ben Shabbat paid for his life after trying to help a family that was drifting off the road when the floodwaters overflowed • His friend, Raviv Cohen, described the Sabbath Square website as the drama moments: "We saw people crying out for help and jumped into the water. Suddenly I realized Mutti was gone."
Moti tried to help and drowned to death // Photo: Hertzi Shapira
38-year-old Moti Ben Shabbat and father of an 11-year-old girl, is the hero of the day he has paid in his life after dropping flooding in Nahariya. Shabbos helped civilians who got stuck with their vehicles in the flood in the northern city, but in the end his strength was not up to him and he drifted into the flood and found his death.
Raviv Cohen, a friend of Ben Shabbat who worked with him to rescue the family who was drifting off with his car when the Gushtun flooded, described the moments of the Sabbath Square as "Mutti and I saw people crying out for help to get them out of the car in the flood, straightened our clothes, jumped into the water and extracted them Through the car windows.
"Suddenly I noticed that Moti was gone, I started to scream for divers to look for him in depth. Moti told me a moment before he drifted off that he felt he was running out of power and was going to pass out. He drifted ashore through the drainage pipe - not wanting to think what he was going through in those moments.
"I shouted to her to help us and Shmutti came back alive, but God wanted another," Cohen said. "If there was no fence, too, I would be carried away with it, I was saved by a miracle. We were good friends. I don't believe I'm talking about him in the past tense. It's unimaginable, a person comes down from home to help others - and never comes back."
The flooding in Nahariya
Since yesterday's evening, the country has been experiencing a severe winter storm that has brought with it unusual amounts of rain. In the northern coastal area - in Nahariya, Acre, Krayot and Haifa area - many streets were flooded and the police had to close roads.
According to the meteorological service, stormy weather is expected to continue in the next few hours as significant rainfall is expected to drop in large areas across the country and there is concern about flooding and flooding.
