The ban of commercial and recreational fishing in nesting and spawning grounds is intended to help the population of St. Peterโs Fish grow and strengthen as part of the national effort to preserve fishing resources and water quality in the Kinneret (Sea of Galilee).
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A winepress from the Byzantine period was found in a Roman-era roofed reservoir in Tzipori (Sepphoris) National Park. Such a winepress in a roofed reservoir has never before been found anywhere in Israel.
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He looks like a fairy tale animal. A unicorn. A shark with a hammer structure at the top of its head. Meet the hammerhead shark, and find out why this shape is useful, and what has been happening to the worldโs hammerheads in the last decade.
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Join us on a fascinating journey to a unique part of Israel where only few have set foot in. The Hula Nature Reserve is first and foremost a home to a wide variety of birds, animals and flora, but it is also a time capsule of history and nature in the north of Israel. Though part of this enchanting nature reserve is open to visitors, thereโs another part, a much larger one, that is closed. Few have the keys to this unknown area. Few had the opportunity to set their foot in.
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The name of the Roman Emperor Maximinus Thrax, who ruled between 235 and 238 CE, has been identified for the first time on an ancient Roman milestone, according to recent research by scholars from the University of Haifa on the territory of ancient Sussita.
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Banning fishing in the Mediterranean during breeding season
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