Dead Sea

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

When rain shut down Dead Sea plans, the Hebrew Music Museum turned a Birthright setback into an unforgettable Jerusalem experience.

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

Israeli security and rescue forces take part in an earthquake drill at Ziv Medical Center, Safed, northern Israel, December 23, 2025; illustrative.

Next years 'critical' for Israel's earthquake preparedness, Israel Katz warns


This week in Jerusalem: The night train

A weekly round-up of city affairs.

 STARTING SEPTEMBER 17, trains headed in each direction from the capital to the airport will run once an hour between Saturday and Wednesday nights.

From Iran to teachers on strike: A week of deals concerning Israel

The Jerusalem Post Podcast with Yaakov Katz and Lahav Harkov


Living it up at the Prima Oasis Spa Club

The Prima hotel chain has combined two existing hotels, the Oasis and the Spa Club, into one property with 242 rooms and suites.

 THE PRIMA OASIS Spa Club by the Dead Sea.

Learning to appreciate the natural amenities in our backyard - opinion

I live in a country with a million nature, religious and historic sites an hour from my home, but always scratch my head wondering what to do with guests coming through.

The D City design mall in Ma'aleh Adumim (illustrative).

A weekend of wellness at Israel's Dead Sea

Vert Dead Sea became Israel’s first hotel to host a three-day Wellness Festival in mid-June. The event was a great success.

 The Wellness Festival at the Dead Sea.

Catastrophe looms for Dead Sea as incoming water sources dry up, scientist says

In addition, water is being pumped from the sea to Dead Sea Works factories’ artificial evaporation ponds. So little water enters the salt lake in the north and lots of water exits in the south. 

 A SINKHOLE NEAR the Dead Sea.

Israel-Bahrain water sustainability cooperation can help avert crisis

In the long run, a Middle East alliance for water sustainability can have a positive impact on saving the Dead Sea, which is lacking regional cooperation. 

 EXTENSIVE COASTAL development in Manama.

Dead Sea sediment analyses show 15,000-year-old climate phase periods

The sediments at the edge of Lake Lisan near the archaeological site of Masada and from the bottom of the Dead Sea are unique witnesses to this development.

 Sediments formed in the Lisan lake during lake level between 24.000 and 14.000 years ago. Today, these deposits are found more than 200 meters above the water level of the Dead Sea. View from Masada across the Dead Sea.

True living with the Dead Sea

If there is a place on this globe where humans are exploiting and destroying nature on an unprecedented scale, it’s the Dead Sea. 

 A VIEW OF the Dead Sea.

Passover trips in Israel: Springtime visit to the Dead Sea

It’s not always easy to find a nice, reasonably priced place to stay in our tiny country, but the thought of finally being able to take a real vacation is extremely enticing.

 The Herbert Samuel Hod Dead Sea Hotel