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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Beit Yannai

Shark swims in the Mediterranean Sea as Israeli police search the area for a swimmer who they fear was attacked by a shark on Monday, near Hadera, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
April 23, 2025, 11:14 am
As search goes on for missing swimmer, experts say people shouldn’t have teased sharks
Nature groups say warnings not to approach the fish went unheeded, but still unclear why man was apparently mauled: ‘They are not creatures that attack’
By ToI Staff and AP
Police search for a diver who was attacked by a shark off the coast of Hadera, on April 21, 2025. (Israel Police)
April 21, 2025, 7:16 pm
Diver missing, feared dead, after rare shark attack off the coast of Hadera
‘They’re eating him,’ witnesses shout. ‘Nobody’s coming to save him’. Recent fish die-offs have attracted dusky and sandbar sharks to area, where swimming is prohibited
By Charlie Summers and Sue Surkes
An aerial view of sharks swimming in the shallow Mediterranean Sea water off the Israeli coastal town of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv. (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
April 21, 2025, 1:47 am
Seasonal fish mortality draws sharks to central beach, alarming bathers
While fish die-offs are common in April as waters warm, and are known to attract sharks, the animals appear to have discovered Beit Yanai for the first time
By Sue Surkes
Nature and Parks Authority staff treat a wounded dolphin at the Sea Turtle Rescue Center in Mikhmoret, June 12, 2021 (Yali Mivorakh/Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
June 12, 2021, 6:10 pm
Unwell dolphin found off coast of northern Israel dies despite rescue effort
Nature and Parks Authority took the animal for treatment, says it had breathing problems and appears to have been suffering from disease; also had bite marks on its tail
By ToI Staff
Wastewater at the Yad Hanna Wastewater Treatment Plant bloodied by the detritus from slaughterhouses in the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank city of Tulkarem, April 14, 2020. (Courtesy, Alon Heyman)
April 14, 2020, 10:19 pm
Stream runs red with blood as abattoir waste conjures up biblical plague
As demand for chicken meat peaks for Passover and Ramadan, West Bank effluent drains into tributary of Israel’s Alexander River, highlighting cross-boundary pollution problem
By Sue Surkes
A wall of lanterns at Beerotayim, a rustic campsite in Ezuz, one of the villages in Nitzana (photo credit: Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
September 20, 2013, 11:50 am
Time to camp out, minus the tent
Some great places to get the camping experience without schlepping the sleeping bags
By Jessica Steinberg
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