An Israeli man who was swept away by a river while hiking in Western Canada was found dead last week, ending a month-long search, his family said.

The body of  Ofakim resident Illya Rechytskyy, 65, was located in Daisy Lake, in British Columbia on July 30, his wife Irina Andreeva wrote on Facebook Thursday.

Rechytskyy, who was originally from Ukraine, had been last seen on July 1 as he was being carried down the Cheakamus River south of the town of Whistler, according to his daughter Veronika Misyura, sparking a large search effort along the river.

“After 30 long days of searching we finally found him, he had been swept away by the river’s current and carried into Daisy Lake,” she wrote on a GoFundMe page set up by the family to pay for funeral costs.

Rechytskyy had been in Whistler to visit his daughter, a photographer who lives in the Canadian ski and nature haven. He had initially been scheduled to fly back to Israel on June 16, but his flight was postponed due to the war with Iran, leaving him with extra time in Canada.

“Had the flight not been canceled, [my] dad would have been at home,” a woman identified as his daughter Maria was quoted telling the........

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