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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 533

Red Sea-Dead Sea Canal

Salt formations and sinkholes at the Dead Sea, southern Israel, May 2, 2023. (Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
May 29, 2024, 6:17 pm
Environment Ministry unveils old-new plan to slow demise of Dead Sea
Subject to Israeli and Jordanian approval, project would desalinate Mediterranean seawater using hydroelectricity, sell drinking water to Jordan and channel brine to Dead Sea
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image: An Israeli teen walks along a promenade into Israel's Dead Sea, 2021. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/ToI)
June 26, 2022, 2:04 pm
Daily Briefing June 26: Lapid’s 1st battle; introducing ToI film ‘Dead Sea Walking’
Editor David Horovitz gives us the political lay of the land and environment reporter Sue Surkes drills down on problems facing the lowest point on Earth
By ToI Staff
A view of salt covered land at the Dead Sea, on September 2, 2016. Many facilities and beaches have closed in recent years as the sea shrinks (Edi Israel/Flash90)
October 21, 2021, 10:28 pm
Now’s the time to save the Dead Sea
A natural wonder is being destroyed on Israel’s watch. But falling desalination costs, technical advances, and new avenues of regional cooperation offer a chance to change that
By David Horovitz
Dry earth in time of drought, north of Israel's Dead Sea.(ABIR SULTAN/Flash90)
June 17, 2021, 3:18 pm
After years of delays, Jordan said to nix Red Sea-Dead Sea canal with Israel, PA
Report says kingdom will pull the plug on pipeline and instead focus on internal desalination project
By ToI Staff
The receding shore line leaves a thin crust of salt behind as the water level of the Dead Sea drops more than a meter a year, like this area pictured on January 11, 2017. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
November 7, 2019, 6:40 am
Sinking Israel-Jordan relations leave Dead Sea, a natural wonder, low and dry
17 years after latest round of talks began on Red-Dead canal, Israel drags its feet, Jordan bans Israeli scientists from its side, and the iconic lake relentlessly contracts
By Sue Surkes
A view of the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on October 18, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
December 30, 2018, 1:10 am
Government said set to approve long-stalled Red Sea-Dead Sea canal project
Minister responsible for talks on joint initiative with Jordan says approving plan will ‘strengthen the peace’ between Jerusalem and Amman
By ToI Staff
Photo shows the decline in the level of water in the Sea of Galilee, October 8, 2018. (JACK GUEZ/AFP)
November 21, 2018, 12:38 am
Jordanian officials said to ask Israel to boost water supply
Request comes after Amman warns it won’t renew border land leases to Israel, clinched in 1994 peace deal
By ToI Staff
A view of the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on October 18, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
November 2, 2018, 1:49 pm
Israel said looking to push Dead Sea canal project to repair Jordan ties
Amman has been frustrated by long-stalled plans to jointly pump water from Red Sea to shrinking salt-water lake
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on July 25, 2017,meets with Israeli Ambassador to Jordan Einat Schlein and security guard 'Ziv,' who shot dead two Jordanians as he was being stabbed by one of them. (Haim Zach/GPO)
November 29, 2017, 4:38 pm
Israel to replace Jordanian envoy in effort to mend ties — report
Diplomatic official says Israel is looking for a replacement for Einat Schlein, whom Jordan does not want back in Amman following a deadly embassy shooting
By ToI Staff
A view of the Dead Sea from Masada (photo credit: Shmuel Bar-Am)
November 27, 2017, 4:06 pm
Jordan said to demand answers from Israel as Red Sea-Dead Sea project stalls
Jerusalem has threatened to ditch massive infrastructure plan unless the embassy in Amman is reopened
By Dov Lieber
A view of the Dead Sea in southern Israel, on October 18, 2017. (Yaniv Nadav/Flash90)
November 13, 2017, 11:04 pm
Israel reportedly threatens to shelve Jordan water deal until embassy reopened
Offices in Amman were shuttered in July after an Israeli security guard shot dead two Jordanians, one of whom was stabbing him
By ToI Staff
The southern Israeli city of Eilat and Jordanian city of Aqaba seen, December 18, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 16, 2017, 11:34 am
Experts say Red Sea-Dead Sea pipe dream isn’t worth its salt
Plan to ‘save’ the wonder of the world through multi-million dollar pipeline is criticized as a political tool to win international donor money
By Melanie Lidman
US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt (C) sits next to Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi (L) and Mazen Ghoneim (R), head of the Palestinian Water Authority, during a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 13, 2017, 10:42 pm
White House hopes water deal will create ‘environment’ for peace talks
In statement, Trump administration reiterates an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is a ‘top priority’ for president
By Raphael Ahren and Melanie Lidman
US President Donald Trump's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, center, sits next to Israel's Regional Cooperation Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, left, and Mazen Ghoneim, right, head of the Palestinian Water Authority, during a news conference about a water-sharing agreement between Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority, in Jerusalem, July 13, 2017. (AFP/POOL/RONEN ZVULUN)
July 13, 2017, 1:42 pm
Israel, Palestinians reach landmark water deal for West Bank, Gaza
New desalination project is part of wider plan to run water through pipeline from Red Sea down to Dead Sea; US envoy Greenblatt hopes it’s a ‘harbinger of things to come’
By Raphael Ahren and Melanie Lidman
Salt stalactite formations at the Dead Sea. (courtesy Noam Bedein)
February 20, 2017, 2:40 pm
After Sderot, photographer trains lens on a disappearing Dead Sea
Noam Bedein has captured the beauty in destruction wrought by rockets in Israel’s south. Now, he’s taking aim at the rapid demise of a natural heritage site
By Melanie Lidman
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