A man who was swept away in a flash flood, triggering a desperate hours-long search by emergency services, was found dead on Tuesday morning, dozens of kilometers away from where he had disappeared the day before.

“To our great regret, the body of the missing person was found,” the Israel Police said in a statement.

He was identified by Hebrew media as Tamer Alzagarneh, 21, a resident of the Bedouin town of Hura in the Negev.

Searches for Alzagarneh began in the afternoon on Monday, after he was seen being carried away by floodwaters in the Meitar stream, a tributary of the Hebron stream, which flows south into the Negev region.

Alzagarneh and another man were caught on video attempting to help extract a car that was half-submerged in the rushing water.

The water abruptly caught the car, and though the other man managed to scramble to safety, Alzagarneh was pulled in. As helpless bystanders watched, he was seen struggling against the water, unable to get to the bank and out of reach of dozens of people just meters away, until he was swept out of sight.

אדם נסחף בשיטפון ליד מעבר מיתר........

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