The bodies of two additional passengers who were killed in a helicopter crash off the Netanya coast on Tuesday afternoon have been recovered. The total number of casualties in the crash rose to four. The crash occurred near the Sironit Beach off the Netanya coast.
Officials were in the process of identifying the dead and informing their families, but said that one of them was a British national. Witnesses at the beach said they heard loud noises coming from the helicopter just before it crashed. An investigation into the causes of the crash has been opened.