The Dead Sea is located in the Jordan Rift Valley and bordered by Jordan to the east and Palestine and Israel to the west. The lake is the lowest point on earth and the saltiest water body in the ...

Depending on which beach you choose, you may have to pay to swim in the Dead Sea. Masada is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. between April and September and from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. between October and March.

Gidon bromberg is nervous. On a sweltering August afternoon, the Israeli environmental activist leads me along the shore of the Dead Sea, watching every step we take. Towering sandstone mesas loom ...

The Jordan Valley and northern Dead Sea are considered strategically vital zones by Israel for security. If Israel annexed them, it would encircle any future Palestinian state in the West Bank.

To him, Israel’s water needs are far more pressing than the fate of the Dead Sea, whose heavily-salinated, brackish waters are viewed as being unimportant as a source of usable water.

From his meeting with Zahavi, the author drives north along Israel's Route 90, which spans the length of the country, from the desert south to the lush Hula Valley in the north.

“My visit to Israel was an experience for me and I am always happy to return here and photograph in the only country in the Middle East that allows art such as this,” Tunick said. He did an ...

In 1948, famed archaeologist and leading biblical scholar William Albright made the extraordinary claim that the Dead Sea Scrolls were “the greatest archaeological find of the 20th century.” ...