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Monday, September 23, 2019
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Monday, September 23, 2019
Health officials shut popular northern streams over unsafe bacteria levels
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleJust days before the start on Sunday of the Jewish High Holidays, when hundreds of thousands of Israeli families take to the outdoors, officials announce they have detected unsafe levels of contaminants in several popular streams along well-known hiking trails in the country’s north.
In a statement by the ministries of environmental protection and health, officials say six streams concentrated north of the Sea of Galilee were found in routine checks to contain “anomalous amounts of bacteria,” and order them “temporarily closed.”
The streams are El Al, Banias, Zaki, Meshushim, and Jilaboun, and the Jordan River from its northernmost tip to where it empties into the Sea of Galilee.
Health officials say the water will be tested regularly.
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