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Pnei Kedem: Where the view hooks you - and the community makes you stay

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Kikar Hamusica: View of Jerusalem’s Music Square with its various restau rants and outdoor music performance spaces.

Saved by a square: A rainy-day miracle at Jerusalem’s Hebrew Music Museum

Visitors walk across salt formations along the receding shoreline of the Dead Sea, a stark sign of the region’s growing environmental crisis.

Israel's overlooked challenge: Environmental damage from two years of war - from the editor

Hikers trek past a cavernous sinkhole on the shores of the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi.

Seeing sinkholes: How the Dead Sea’s collapse became a tourist draw


Ancient pyramid, coins, and weapons: Archaeologists unearth Judean Desert treasure trove

A 2,200-year-old pyramid-shaped structure and artifacts were uncovered in the Judean Desert, reshaping history. The IAA-led dig near Nahal Zohar invites volunteers to help uncover its purpose.

Reseachers uncover a pyramid-like structure in the Judean Desert, photo taken March 2025

Israeli riviera: Hundreds of new hotel rooms planned at Dead Sea

Despite security concerns, the government advances tourism: A new tender offers four hotel and commercial complexes in Ein Bokek and Hamei Zohar to double available rooms.

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IDF arrests suspected infiltrators near Jordanian border, gunfire exchanged

The IDF noted that there were individuals hit from the gunfire exchange but no casualties.

 IDF counterterrorism operation in the West Bank throughout the month of February 2025.

Three days of yoga, meditation, and wellness – free at the Dead Sea

The Tamar Regional Council is hosting a wellness festival at the Ein Bokek promenade from February 24-26. The festival will feature yoga, Pilates, meditation, and additional workshops free of charge.

 Wellness Festival in the Tamar Regional Council

Meditation and kiddush: A festival of wellness and Israeli Shabbat

From yoga to Shabbat: We explored the Fit&Soul festival by Shabtava, blending wellness and Jewish tradition, with performances by David D'Or and Avri Gilad, and lectures by Prof. Rafi Carasso.

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Immediate death Gulf of Aqaba underwater brine pools may explain origin of life on Earth

The brine pools in the Gulf of Aqaba are up to ten times saltier than seawater and lack oxygen, causing marine creatures that enter to be anesthetized or die.

 View on the Aqaba gulf and coral reefs near Eilat, Israel.

IDF raid Hamas stronghold in Gaza hospital, PM to undergo operation

IDF issues evacuation orders in northern Gaza • Rockets from Gaza activate sirens in Jerusalem, Shfela areas

 The IDF begins operations in Beit Hanoun, in the northern Gaza on September 28, 2024.

Reporter's notebook: Shishi Shabbat Israeli - Climbing mountains and bridging cultures

Everyone I spoke to, regardless of where they were from, how long they lived in Israel, or if this was their first event, said the same thing: Community.

 The Jerusalem Posts joined Shishi Shabbat Israeli for their 106th seminar weekend in the Negev Desert.

IDF returns bodies of terrorists who carried out shooting near Dead Sea to Jordan

The bodies were transferred from Israel back to Jordan via the King Hussein Bridge before being returned to their families.

 A car drives past a road signal indicating the Allenby (King Hussein) bridge crossing point to Jordan (background), in the city of Jericho in the West Bank, on January 28, 2021.

School directors convicted for negligence in Nahal Tzafit disaster deaths

The team organizing the outing had allegedly made special preparations ahead of time due to serious warnings for the fear of floods in the area of ​​the trip.

 Parents of two victims of the flood.