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The tar disaster on the beaches is just awful, but there is one big consolation - Walla! Tourism

2021-02-23T09:31:51.046Z


It will still take time to assess the extent of the ecological damage of the tar disaster, but one can take some comfort in the fact that our national antiquities sites, and there are many along the coasts like Apollonia, Ashkelon, Atlit and others, have hardly been damaged. "It's a kind of miracle," says an archaeologist who surveyed them all this week


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The tar disaster on the beaches is just awful, but there is one big consolation

It will still take time to assess the extent of the ecological damage of the tar disaster, but one can take some comfort in the fact that our national antiquities sites, and there are many along the coasts like Apollonia, Ashkelon, Atlit and others, have hardly been damaged.

"It's a kind of miracle," says an archaeologist who surveyed them all this week

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Ziv Reinstein

Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 11:00 p.m.

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Sea turtle hit by tar on Palmachim beach (Photo: Shlomi Ben Shimol, RTG)

While ecologists and environmentalists are trying to "lick" the wounds of the tar disaster on the shores of Israel and estimate the damage that is being discovered every day, there is also good news related to the variety of antiquities sites scattered along the shores - most of them have survived the black tar.



Inspections by the Nature and Parks Authority, in collaboration with the Antiquities Authority from south to north, found that there were sites where tar bags were found, but important antiquities sites, which are also national parks such as Old Ashkelon, or Palmachim Beach where Yavne Yam Citadel or Apollonia and Atlit Fortress were not damaged. .



"The situation is quite similar to the ecological situation, the further north you go - the more severe the damage," says Walla!

Tourism Head of the Heritage Department and Acting Chief Archaeologist at the Nature and Parks Authority, Yossi Bordowitz.

According to him, in the south, there are a few spots on the Ashkelon coast, because the site is located on a cliff and also because they built a wall that protects the antiquities.

"There you only need to clean the tar, but if you go north, the splashes inside start in Caesarea, where the tar went up on the beach and you see individual stains of tar bags that went up on some of the mosaics near the hippodrome, and Herod's Reef Palace, where there are tar bags but the damage is minor." He adds.

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The further north you go, the more severe the damage.

Achziv National Park damaged by tar (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yossi Bordowitz)

Antiquities of Apollonia that were not actually damaged by tar (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Hagai Yohanan)

In Caesarea, several tar pests were discovered on the mosaics near the beach (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yonatan Oralim)

"The process of cleaning tar from antiquities - Sisyphean"

In a recent survey conducted by Bordowitz and his team along Israel's coastline, they found that although there are almost no damaged antiquities sites, they did find evidence of tar in Caesarea National Park, Habonim Beach, Shikmona, Achziv (Tel Achziv) and Rosh Hanikra Beach, which require cleaning and preservation, but Were not damaged.



As for the antiquities in Achziv, there is a slight damage of tar in the southern part of the cliff in the area of ​​the village, "says Bordowitz," but other than that, the antiquities in the rest of the national park do not appear to have been damaged.

The beach is less good and there is a lot of tar, especially one that has adhered to waste and organic alluvium. "



He says tar is a substance that once it dries on the antiquities, it should be taken seriously how to remove it, especially in a humid and saline environment." Our experience with this material is Not much and the Sisyphean process - mechanical cleaning, light cleaning and again mechanical, "he says." We are examining the option of using steam and there are also consumables, but before the pilot we will not know how to handle it. "

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Hardly injured.

Caesarea Beach from the air, this week (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shaul Goldstein)

But the antiquities actually do.

Caesarea Reef Palace of King Herod (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Yossi Bordowitz)

Tar stains in Tel Dor (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Meir Adrei, Tel Dor Excavation Expedition)

"The big concern was about Achziv"

Which site was hit the hardest after all?


"No site was hit the hardest, somehow the currents took the tar towards the shores, and only a few bags of tar entered the sites. Our biggest concern was about Achziv, because around Achziv the damage is ecological, so we immediately took our crews to do a comprehensive inspection. "Caesarea, etc. - to our delight, the situation is reasonable. Our fears have been dispelled. It is a kind of miracle, it is surprising and very happy."



Conversely, which antiquities site is in the best condition?


"Ashkelon is in the best condition both because of the height and because the site is south, because the tar moves north. In Tel Dor we received reports of a lot of tar, but it turns out to be in vain - only a few bags of tar - and we were afraid it was a new national park."



What about underwater archeological sites, like the port of Caesarea?


"Underwater we are waiting for an answer from divers of the Antiquities Authority."



And what about the islands of Rosh Hanikra?


"They are currently being treated ecologically, because even though there are quarries there, it is a habitat and they take it seriously because there is damage there. The sandy beaches are less damaged, but the rocky beaches - there is a large accumulation of tar."

It is not yet known what the condition of the antiquities is underwater.

Caesarea, this week (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shaul Goldstein)

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