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DEAD SEA REGION
Dead Sea Photo Gallery - ים המלח בתמונות
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1 Dead Sea
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2 Dead Sea
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3 Dead Sea
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4 Dead Sea, P.E.F. Rock (Observation Rock)
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5 Dead Sea
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6 Dead Sea
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7 Dead Sea
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8 Dead Sea
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9 Dead Sea
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10 Dead Sea
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 lies some 400 m below sea level at the lowest point on the earth\'s surface, and is a part of the Syrian - East Africa Rift Valley, flanked by the Judean Mountains to the west and the Moab mountains to the east.<br> The name Mare Mortuum (=Dead Sea) was devised by Jerome (Hieronymus about 347-419) because the 78km long, up to 18km wide sea is one of the most saline lakes in the world.<br> It is mainly fed by the Jordan River in the north and by perennial springs and streams from the east and west.'))
<br>Pliny the Elder wrote in Natural History: \'The Dead Sea,<br> asphaltites lacus, produces only bitumen, from which it derives its name\'. '))
' , 'Between the years 1900-1913, and again in 1917, the Palestine Exploration Fund (P.E.F.) measured the water level of the Dead Sea using this rock.'))
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