05.07.2011                      03.Tammus, 5771

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Sights and Insights: The Dead Sea will live again

If bodies of water could be ghost towns, the Dead Sea would top the list. It’s the lowest place on earth, hottest spot in Israel, and nothing can live in its waters.

Piles of driftwood, bleached white like old bones, surround the shoreline of the Dead Sea. If bodies of water could be ghost towns, the Dead Sea would top the list. It’s the lowest place on earth, it’s the hottest spot in Israel, and nothing can live in its waters. 
A mosaic on the floor of a church in Medeba, Jordan, represents an early tourist map for Byzantine pilgrims on their way to the Holy Land. The map shows fish swimming down the Jordan River and then turning around once they hit the Dead Sea! As the Jordan River snakes its descent from the base of Mount Hermon, it ultimately empties its flow just south of Jericho into brackish waters….