Kibbutz Ein Gedi is nestled within a nature reserve on a desert plateau, slightly elevated above the Dead Sea.

Dead Sea highway, Ein Gedi reserve closed amid ongoing cleanup from Sunday deluge 7 May 2025, 9:27 am ...

Ein Gedi, once a popular Dead Sea beach in Israel, lies abandoned due to dangerous sinkholes and the receding shoreline caused by climate change and industrial water use.

An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 22, 2024 shows a view of the Dead Sea near Ein Gedi beach in Israel. (Photo: Xinhua) An aerial drone photo taken on Oct. 22, 2024 shows a view of the Dead Sea ...

Ein Gedi Camp Lodge (Khan Ein Gedi in Hebrew) opened in 2016 adjacent to the entrance of Kibbutz Ein Gedi. Situated on a hillside, it has a spectacular view over the turquoise waters and salt ...

A large sinkhole in the middle of the road in the Ein Gedi area west of the Dead Sea in Israel on Nov 5. Ein Gedi Beach is completely closed to bathers due to the danger of sinkholes.

More fragments of the scrolls were uncovered as recently as 2021. Archaeologists returned to this particular cave near the desert oasis of Ein Gedi to document an inscription found decades earlier.

Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster,' but no one can agree how to fix it Rock patterns formed by crystalized minerals along the Dead Sea shore near Kibbutz Ein Gedi in eastern Israel on Dec. 30.