EIN GEDI: In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now, the same beach is punctured by craters.

A spectacular expanse of water in the desert, flanked by cliffs to the east and west, the Dead Sea has lost a third of its surface area since 1960.

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