Among the plans for the Dead Sea area, Israelis are being asked to choose between an Eilat-style tourism complex, which could include a string of beach hotels
Israelis have been invited to decide whether their half of the Dead Sea shore should be redeveloped in keeping with its natural beauty or as a full-on, money-spinning concrete jungle.… Read the rest of this article…
The Dead Sea is again in environmental headlines as a project to remove salt accumulations from the lakes southern portions have passed preliminary readings in Israel’s parliament. The salt removal project would be largely paid for by the Dead Sea Works, with the profits derived from the sale of the extracted minerals to be placed in a special rehabilitation fund.… Read the rest of this article…
Instead, it approves salt harvest measures and increase in Dead Sea Works royalties.
Barely a week after the Dead Sea failed to make the list of winners in the New 7 Wonders competition, the cabinet rejected a bill that would provide for its rehabilitation and protection in an 8-7 vote on Sunday.… Read the rest of this article…
A wonderful picture of a rainbow over the Dead Sea by ‘Salt Of The Earth’ producer S.i.Goodman.… Read the rest of this article…
The waters of the Dead Sea rise and fall. You may not know that if you only read the newspapers and not the history books. Climate change has affected the earth as long as we can tell. There’s a great demonstration of the historically changing levels (and therefore shape) of the Dead Sea recently created by A.D.… Read the rest of this article…
Here at the lowest place on earth, in 75 degree sunshine, Olga Alexarkin is sitting on a deckchair in bathing suit and gazing eastwards across the radiantly blue, imponderably deep, Dead Sea towards the Jordanian cliffs 11 miles away.
In a moment she will plunge into the little waves thrown up by the desert breeze, and bob effortlessly on her back supported by the planet’s most buoyant water, so saturated with salt that it will sting scratches she never knew she had.… Read the rest of this article…
Not Looking Back
An excerpt from ‘Salt – A World History’ by Mark Kurlansky available from Amazon UK USA
SOME 3,000 YEARS ago, wanting a capital in the commanding heights of the Judean hills, David conquered the fortress of Zion and built Jerusalem.… Read the rest of this article…
A diver, outfitted with special equipment designed to brave the salty conditions, is partially obscured by the murk of the Dead Sea. Credit: Christian Lott/ The Hydra Institute.
For the first time, researchers have sent a diving expedition into the Dead Sea, where they uncovered freshwater springs issuing from massive craters in the seafloor, along with a menagerie of microbes.… Read the rest of this article…
