Located southeast of Jerusalem, along the Israel-Jordan border, the Dead Sea is the lowest point on ... Depending on which beach you choose, you may have to pay to swim in the Dead Sea.

DEAD SEA, Israel (JTA) — As the owner of the second ... The stream, the animals surrounding it and the beach it flows through were submerged underwater as recently as the mid-2000s.

Hundreds of people have stripped naked by the Dead Sea in Israel to draw attention to its dramatically receding shoreline. The event was part of a live installation by the artist Spencer Tunick ...

The body of a 1.5 meter (5 foot) long, 60 kilogram (132 pound) sandbar shark is found on a beach in Hadera in central Israel.

More are being held outside on the hotel lawn. DEAD SEA, Israel (JTA) — Nearly three weeks after Kibbutz Be’eri was massacred, its surviving members still gather for their community’s ...

One of the last remaining obscure parts of the Dead Sea Scrolls has been deciphered by researchers in Israel. Sixty tiny fragments were pieced together over a period of a year, identifying the ...

More recently, Bedouin tribes have scratched a living in the area and in the 20th century, the Dead Sea was a flash point in the war between Israel and Jordan. Today, their border runs north to ...

Lebanese volunteers are anxious to get back to sea turtle conservation on southern beaches that were off-limits to civilians ...