By Shoshanna Solomon, Times of Israel
A team of 16- and 17-year-olds at an AMIT Yeshiva High School in the outskirts of Jerusalem has set up a startup company to develop a wrist band that aims to help keep beach-goers safe from drowning.
Since the start of swimming season mid-March and as of September 6, paramedics of the Magen David Adom ambulance service have treated 201 people who were pulled out of the water at beaches or pools. Of those, 51 people died, including 13 children. In September, a toddler died a week after she nearly drowned in a pool in northern Israel.
“We want to reduce the number of people who die and get hurt at the beach,” said Moshe Schwartzberg, 16, the CEO and a co-founder of the newly set up Enter+ startup. “The idea is to create a wrist band that will be given out for free at beaches, which swimmers will be able to wear before they go into the water.”
Click here to read the full article about these AMIT students’ invention at the Times of Israel.
