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Israeli surfers rescue 8 drowning children in Hawaii
Jpost.com ^ | 2/10/13 | staff
Posted on February 10, 2013 1:16:58 PM EST by Nachum
Three Israeli surfers went to the aid of eight children struggling in the waters off Hawaii on Saturday, Channel 2 television reported, after huge waves began surging toward the coast. The three - Tzvika Elias, Yair Naftali and Gabi Liptz - were hailed as heroes by the children’s parents.
“We had gone to a remote beach half an hour from Honolulu,” 30-year-old Elias, who lives in New York, told Channel 2. “The waves there were high, huge breakers about four meters high, and as the minutes past, the waves got stronger and even higher.”
Elias and his friends then saw a group of children aged between 12 and 14 who had gotten into difficulties in the water. “As we neared the children we saw that they had been swept out to sea and were being pounded by the huge waves,” he told the television. “On the shoreline we saw the mothers watching powerless as their children were drowning in front of them. Yair and I, who were at that point together in the water, tried with all our might to reach the group to try to get them away from the strong waves.”
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