The death toll caused by the fierce storm that thundered into Israel last weekend has risen to seven. Two soldiers originally reported missing in the Negev were found and rescued by helicopter Monday morning.
Two passengers in a car overturned and washed away by a flash flood in a wadi near Beersheba were drowned, and a young Druze army officer who went to their rescue was also torn away by the raging waters.
Two young men and a woman from the Gaza Strip township of Khan Yunis were killed by lightning strikes while working in fields, and an 18-year-old Bedouin boy was found dead after a search in Beersheba.
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