Drone debris closes Kiryat Haim beach; body report draws multi-unit search at Sdot Yam

Shlomi Siryoti's morning walk turned into three calls to police — and a beach shut down while bomb disposal handled two drones.

Drone debris closes Kiryat Haim beach; body report draws multi-unit search at Sdot Yam — Shlomi Siryoti, 65, was on his routine morning walk at Kiryat Haim beach when he saw two drones. "I was on a morning walk - and suddenly I saw two drones," he said, and it took three calls before police arrived to collect the findings — dispatchers, by the account given, did not initially grasp the significance [^1]. Lifeguards then closed the beach and moved bathers away after another drone was spotted floating in the water, and a bomb disposal expert arrived to handle them [^1]. Further south, a report of a body among the rocks at Sdot Yam beach triggered extensive searches by the Israel Police and Fire and Rescue Services, involving a helicopter, a jet ski, and watercraft [^2]. Officers from the Hadera station, the Lahava unit of Fire and Rescue Services, the maritime police, and the police air unit operated at the scene, while police emphasized that the report has not yet been confirmed [^2]. Inland, a 60-year-old man fell 15 meters while cycling in the Upper Og Stream. Medical teams from the Megilot Rescue Unit, MDA, and rescuers from Unit 669 arrived, gave initial treatment, and evacuated him by IAF helicopter to Hadassah Hospital [^3]. And in Yehud, the Avia Hotel — inaugurated in 1961, host to Gush Katif evacuees in 2005, abandoned roughly 13 years — sits at the center of a fight over 604 housing units on a 14.7-dunam complex. The Yehud-Monoson municipality wants a 51% hotel, 49% residential split; developers say 104 housing units is not economically viable. The Planning Administration says no new plan has been submitted to the committee [^4]. One story, different headlines — The Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay split Israeli outlets along a single fault line: how much of her record to put in the headline. Kan led with the bare announcement, naming her as a "South African jurist"[^1], and Ynet did the same, adding only "former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights"[^2]. Calcalist and Mako made the accusation the story — "who accused Israel of war crimes" and "Ruled that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza" — while Arutz Sheva branded her "known for anti-Israel