Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix it An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach ...

Ein Gedi, once a popular Dead Sea beach in Israel, lies abandoned due to dangerous sinkholes and the receding shoreline caused by climate change and industrial water use. Regional cooperation ...

"It was like their beach on the Dead Sea, and nowadays you pass by there and it looks like, I don't know ... a shipwreck," she said. "It's hallucinatory, the destruction caused by this thing (the ...

Relaxing beside one of the water-filled sinkholes, Yael recalled how her parents once enjoyed going to a public beach near here. The Dead Sea's retreat has led the abandoned resorts along the old ...

"It was like their beach on the Dead Sea, and nowadays you pass by there and it looks like, I don't know... a shipwreck," she told AFP. "It's hallucinatory, the destruction caused by this thing ...

An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach drawing international tourists to float in the world-famous waters of ...