(22 Apr 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hadera, Israel – 22 April 2025
1. Sharks swimming in sea
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel – 22 April 2025
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press:
"A swimmer in Israel has apparently been attacked by a shark off of the country’s Mediterranean coast. Police have been scouring the site for traces of the man who went missing in an area where large numbers of sharks tend to gather over the winter months. That’s because there’s a power plant there that sends warm water into the sea."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hadera, Israel – 22 April 2025
3. Rescue service tent
4. Zoom out from search boat to people watching
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel – 22 April 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press:
"While swimming isn’t allowed in this particular stretch of beach, swimmers, snorkelers, kayakers, and other boaters enter the waters regularly. And what we’ve seen over recent days is crowds of people swimming with these dusky and sandbar sharks in the sea. People have been swimming with them. They’ve been tugging at their tails. Some have been feeding them."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hadera, Israel – 19 April 2025
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6. Shark swimming past people in the sea
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel – 22 April 2025
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tia Goldenberg, The Associated Press:
"Shark attacks are very rare in Israel. This would be the third recorded time that such an attack has happened. Still, environmental groups say that Israeli authorities must do more to separate humans from this marine predator."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Hadera, Israel – 22 April 2025
8. Police and media on shoreline
STORYLINE:
Israeli police on Tuesday were scouring the coast for a swimmer they fear may have been attacked by a shark in an area that has long seen close encounters between marine predators and beachgoers who sometimes seek them out.
A shiver of endangered dusky and sandbar sharks has been swimming close to the area for years, attracting onlookers who approach the sharks, drawing pleas from conservation groups for authorities to separate people from the wild animals.
Nature groups say those warnings went unheeded.
On Monday, police launched a search along the Mediterranean coast after reports that a shark attacked a swimmer on a beach near the city of Hadera.
On Tuesday, the beach was closed off as search teams used boats and underwater equipment to look for the man.
His identity was not immediately known, but Israeli media said he had gone to swim with the sharks.
This would be just the third recorded shark attack in Israel.
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