Faith in Action in Palestine-Israel: Holy Water—Swift water rescue training on the Upper Jordan River

Periodically Israeli organizations offer extensive training in swift water rescue to volunteer first responders, including police and military. Along this fast flowing stretch of the upper Jordan River in March 2015 (near Rosh Pina in the Upper Galilee) Swift Water Rescue Academy taught techniques such as rope rescues.


Safe Rescue-Swift Water Rescue Academy


Volunteer unit trains for river rescue


photos by skip schiel & teeksa photography

 

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