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Incan city of Cusco. file photo
The woman's friend informed local authorities of the incident, and rescue teams were dispatched to the scene. The missing woman's condition remains unclear.
Peruvian rescue teams are searching for her.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said the deputy ambassador to Lima, Gali Dagan, was also making his way to the scene, while Ministry officials in Israel are in contact with the young woman's family.
Rabbi Ofer Kripor, Chabad's emissary to Cusco, said the group the missing woman travelled with was making its way from Machu Picchu to the capital Lima by bus. When the bus stopped for a short break, the woman got off and then apparently fell from a cliff dozens of meters high, he said.
Cusco often serves as a base for trekkers in South America. About a year ago 22-year-old Rishon Lezion resident Tomer Ahuan was killed when he apparently fell off his boat during a rafting expedition in the Apurimac River in Peru.
In another fatal accident, 23-year-old Yuval Noam of Jerusalem was killed in Turkey's Antalya region after he slipped and fell from a 40-meter (about 130 feet) cliff.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 03:47 PM A. Says:
What in the world? It seems like every week or two there is a story about Israeli tourists falling off cliffs. What's up with that???
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Jul 12, 2009 at 04:34 PM ely Says:
“ What in the world? It seems like every week or two there is a story about Israeli tourists falling off cliffs. What's up with that??? ”
Suicide
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Jul 12, 2009 at 04:29 PM Anonymous Says:
“ What in the world? It seems like every week or two there is a story about Israeli tourists falling off cliffs. What's up with that??? ”
there is something wrong with that.
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Jul 12, 2009 at 05:39 PM Anonymous Says:
“ What in the world? It seems like every week or two there is a story about Israeli tourists falling off cliffs. What's up with that??? ”
It's a wake up call, instead of touring the world, stay home and do teshuva
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Jul 12, 2009 at 06:42 PM Anonymous Says:
“ It's a wake up call, instead of touring the world, stay home and do teshuva ”
You are right 6 here and in the keneret a few god is traynig to call us
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Jul 12, 2009 at 05:08 PM Shlucha Says:
Were i live on shlichus, there is alot of isrealies and their goal is to try do the most dangerous things in their lives (like skydayving and jumping with a rope attached to ur foot. to the water etcccc!!
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Jul 13, 2009 at 06:52 AM Dovid's Friend Says:
“ Were i live on shlichus, there is alot of isrealies and their goal is to try do the most dangerous things in their lives (like skydayving and jumping with a rope attached to ur foot. to the water etcccc!! ”
And why is that #7? The yiddishe neshama inside these not-frum Israelis is burning. They have never learned Torah. They know nothing about the Torah. They fear and dislike frum yidden. So they run away!
Hashem should help US (the frummer yidden) to do teshuva and learn how to reach out with our right hand to these yiddishe neshamas.
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Jul 13, 2009 at 04:11 AM Anonymous Says:
fell 200 meters (600+ ft) and her condition is unknown? I would be willing to bet that she is critically dead or worse.
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Jul 13, 2009 at 08:41 AM Anonymous Says:
why do you think after something likes this happens , everyone on here starts treaching tesguva. Maybe the woman did wander off and didnt see the cliff. I was ou there recently, if you dont know your way in these vilagges u can slip and fall a few hundred feet.
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Jul 13, 2009 at 09:35 AM Yehuda Says:
“ fell 200 meters (600+ ft) and her condition is unknown? I would be willing to bet that she is critically dead or worse. ”
How is one critically dead. If you're dead you're dead. And what is worse than dead?
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Jul 13, 2009 at 09:55 AM anonymous Says:
“ It's a wake up call, instead of touring the world, stay home and do teshuva ”
you are right or at least vacation in Eretz Yisroel so Yidden can make a profit
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Jul 13, 2009 at 10:15 AM Shlomo Zalman Says:
“ fell 200 meters (600+ ft) and her condition is unknown? I would be willing to bet that she is critically dead or worse. ”
someone can be alive and in critical condition, but there is no such thing as critically dead.
Furthermore, the note about suicide was infantile and borders on pure rishus. Second of all, it has nothing to do with Torah klearning or frumkeit. All of you out there who are making snide comments based on zero information should hang your heads in shame. Instead let's pray for a miracle, just like you would if it were a frum Jew.