A saga between times never ends: 31 yeshiva students from Bnei Brak, who went out this morning for a trip to the Darja Stream in the Judean Desert, got stuck in the stream and were unable to get out before dark - they were rescued last night by the Megilot rescue unit.
Towards 10:00 PM, the rescue unit managed to "establish voice contact with them," and after midnight they were rescued to the vehicles.
From the rescue team set up on Highway 90, five additional rescuers went out into the stream, with reserves of equipment and ropes, to assist 20 rescuers already operating in the area. "The back was about 4 meters deep and the number of people who had to be transferred by swimming from side to side was large.".
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• ""When everyone is off, we work" - the commander of the 'Megilot' rescue unit speaks
Nitai Reish, from the Scrolls Rescue Unit, estimated in a conversation with Haredim10 Because he hopes the rescue will be short. "It will be over within three hours," he said.
The bus driver who transported the yeshiva students, and was waiting for them at the exit point, saw that they were delayed in returning, and after being unable to contact them, called the Megilot rescue unit.
One of the hikers managed to get out on his own and said that his friends were trapped deep in the gorge. One of the hikers apparently got stuck in a place he was afraid to get out of.
Five days ago, an ultra-Orthodox family went missing – a pair of parents and five children from Bnei Brak – who were located after volunteers from the Megilot rescue unit began an extensive search for them, only around midnight, within the route of the Darja Stream.
""When everyone is off, we work," said Noam Eldan, commander of the Megilot rescue unit, in an extensive interview he gave toHaredim10.
