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Topic: Dead Sea

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October 3, 2012
2:57 pm

Parting ways? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Ehud Barak seen here at the arrival ceremony of captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit at the Tel Nof air force base, October 18, 2011 (photo credit: Ariel Hermoni/Ministry of Defense/Flash90)

And they’re off!

Netanyahu trash talks Barak, Shai Agassi runs out of gas and Giora Eiland seeks method in Russia’s madness

By Ron Friedman

September 14, 2012
9:53 am

A view of the Dead Sea (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich/Times of Israel staff)

Mass nudes photographer returns to Dead Sea

In new project, Spencer Tunick highlights national treasure’s shrinking shores

September 8, 2012
11:46 am

An illustrative photo of hikers overlooking the Dead Sea (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

German tour guide collapses and dies in cliffs near Dead Sea

Magen David Adom pronounces him dead

By Michal Shmulovich

September 7, 2012
12:35 am

The newly released Israeli version of a joint Israeli-Nepalese postal stamp depicting Mount Everest and the Dead Sea, the highest and lowest places on Earth, respectively. (Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs/AP)

New stamp features Everest, Dead Sea

Stamp, issued in both countries this week, is meant to mark decades of cooperation between the two states

September 3, 2012
2:47 pm

An exposed pier in the city of Tiberias (photo credit: Doron Horowitz/Flash90)

Summer heat assails Galilee water level

Dead Sea shrinks at fastest pace in recent years

By Aaron Kalman

May 7, 2012
6:23 pm

Bethlehem, 2012, oil on canvas, 14 in. x 17.5 in. (Courtesy Abraham Storer)

An artist finds the sacred and profane in one local landscape

Fulbright scholar Abraham Storer explores the land for inspiration

By Jessica Steinberg

April 30, 2012
5:14 pm

Tourist drowns in Dead Sea

74-year-old man dies at Ein Gedi beach

By Ilan Ben Zion

April 2, 2012
10:00 pm

Israelis enjoying the Dead Sea’s hot water springs (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)

Dead Sea to join national priority map

Government to encourage investment for building hotels and tourist attractions

By Asher Zeiger

April 1, 2012
8:03 pm

Birds flying over the Hula Lake in the Hula Valley in December (photo credit: Haim Shohat/Flash90)

Bird-watching centers aim to attract flocks of tourists

Cabinet to spend NIS 37 million on new ornithological centers in the Negev and Galilee

By Michal Shmulovich

March 23, 2012
6:54 pm

Hiker dies after 80 meter fall

Rescue services pronounce man dead after a complex rescue attempt in the Judean Desert

By Times of Israel staff

February 29, 2012
2:21 pm

Hannah died on a Sabbath, the first day of Passover, in 438 C.E. (photo credit: Courtesy of the Israel Museum)

Marking where death became a part of life

A small tombstone, among the first to include a date of death, recalls the life of a Jewish woman who lived near the Dead Sea a millennium and a half ago

By Matti Friedman

February 20, 2012
4:14 pm

Divers in the Dead Sea (illustrative photo credit: courtesy Dead Sea Divers)

Dead Sea turns into scuba attraction

ISRAEL21c: The seemingly lifeless lowest place on earth now draws extreme divers

By Viva Sarah Press

February 12, 2012
7:53 pm

A Dead Sea salt factory (photo credit: Shay Levy/Flash90)

Israel: We will revive the Dead Sea

Government approves nearly a quarter billion dollars in development for the lowest place on Earth

By Michal Shmulovich

February 9, 2012
10:36 am

Tanks prepare for civil disobedience in Egypt.. Al-Arabiya

Arab media bemoan government siege of Homs

Egypt and America on a legal collision course; and Jordan to develop alternative energy

By Elhanan Miller

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The Times of Israel

The one-stop news site
covering Israel, the region and
the Jewish people worldwide

Founding editor:
David Horovitz

Fair, fresh and fast

The Jewish world's
fastest-growing
news site

Topic: Dead Sea

And they’re off!

Netanyahu trash talks Barak, Shai Agassi runs out of gas and Giora Eiland seeks method in Russia’s madness

Mass nudes photographer returns to Dead Sea

In new project, Spencer Tunick highlights national treasure’s shrinking shores

German tour guide collapses and dies in cliffs near Dead Sea

Magen David Adom pronounces him dead

New stamp features Everest, Dead Sea

Stamp, issued in both countries this week, is meant to mark decades of cooperation between the two states

Summer heat assails Galilee water level

Dead Sea shrinks at fastest pace in recent years

An artist finds the sacred and profane in one local landscape

Fulbright scholar Abraham Storer explores the land for inspiration

Tourist drowns in Dead Sea

74-year-old man dies at Ein Gedi beach

Dead Sea to join national priority map

Government to encourage investment for building hotels and tourist attractions

Bird-watching centers aim to attract flocks of tourists

Cabinet to spend NIS 37 million on new ornithological centers in the Negev and Galilee

Hiker dies after 80 meter fall

Rescue services pronounce man dead after a complex rescue attempt in the Judean Desert

Marking where death became a part of life

A small tombstone, among the first to include a date of death, recalls the life of a Jewish woman who lived near the Dead Sea a millennium and a half ago

Dead Sea turns into scuba attraction

ISRAEL21c: The seemingly lifeless lowest place on earth now draws extreme divers

Israel: We will revive the Dead Sea

Government approves nearly a quarter billion dollars in development for the lowest place on Earth

Arab media bemoan government siege of Homs

Egypt and America on a legal collision course; and Jordan to develop alternative energy

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