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From North to South: Map of the beaches hardest hit by the tar disaster

With each passing day, more and more beaches are being damaged by the tar disaster.

But the good news is that there are some that have already been cleared.

So which beaches have not been damaged at all, and in which situation is it really difficult?

Here is the latest map, from pests to Rosh Hanikra

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Ziv Reinstein

Wednesday, February 24, 2021, 10:15 p.m.

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Tar pollution in Tel Dor National Park (Photo: Tomer Ofri, Nature and Parks Authority)

The work of collecting tar is still ongoing, and as the days go by sea conservationists and ecologists discover the environmental damage caused by the tar disaster to the beaches along the coastal plain.

But which beaches were hit the hardest?

Dr. Yuval Arbel, Sea Coordinator and Government Relations at Zalul, explains in a call to Walla! Tourism that the oil slick that was in the sea turned into tar and the storm took it north because of southerly winds and swept it to the northern hardest hit beaches. The storm, it was possible to handle it and send a vessel to the sea and collect some of it.

Once there is its turbulence due to the storm, substances are absorbed into the tissues of animals, and I estimate that it is hundreds of tons of oil spilled into the sea, and now it is circulating in the food chain at sea and the damage will be very late.

These are carcinogenic substances. "The

marine ecologist of the Mediterranean in the Nature and Parks Authority, Ruthi Yahel, also explains that" everything is moving north because of the currents in the sea.

The tar came later in large quantities, and the damage is due to the fact that it is rocky shores and therefore it sticks harder, "she says. She says it will take a long time to estimate the extent of the damage, and as time goes on" we clean more on the one hand, but if we hoped it would not To the tables or to the bottom of the sea, and now evidence is beginning to accumulate since there is a part on the bottom of the sea. "

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Volunteers clean tar from a beach in Hof Hasharon National Park (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Dafna Ben-Nun)

According to an assessment by the Nature and Danes Authority from yesterday (Tuesday), it was found that most of the sandy areas on the beaches are relatively clean of large lumps of tar, but there are still finds of tar in small lumps (flakes / coin size) along the shores.

"These lumps are difficult to locate and evacuate and are required to filter the sand and continue with extensive and extensive scans," the authority said.

"Meanwhile, the rocky areas on the shores of nature reserves and national parks are mostly polluted and it will take another long time to remove the tar contamination from them. According to the authority, all beaches are still dirty with tar, even if no large lumps of tar are visible."

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Lumps of tar washed to Dor Beach (Photo: Yoav Itiel)

According to a survey conducted by the director of the Marine Unit of the Nature and Parks Authority, Yigal Ben-Ari, he mapped the beaches like a traffic light, so that a beach that received a large amount of tar was declared

red

, a beach with little or

no cleaning

was declared

yellow

and

a

beach where the damage was minor or completely cleaned of tar was defined as

green

.

North to south:

Achziv and Rosh Hanikra - red.

The beaches were hit quite hard as the storm was high and threw the tar on the rocks outside the sea, beyond the hedge boards, and there are large amounts of tar in the niches, coves and small caves and there it is very difficult to clean, only with the hands.

Shikmona - yellow.

There is some tar, especially in the rocky areas, but the beach has been relatively cleaned by volunteers.

Galim Beach Reserve (from Atlit to Galim Beach) - red.

The beach is damaged and not in good condition.

Also there the tar was thrown east of the water line and it is very complicated to collect it because it is stuck on sand mixed with manure and sea and rock vegetation, which is spread over long miles.

Dor Habonim Reserve (from the Nahal Oren funnel to Ein Dor and Kibbutz Nachsholim) - red.

The coastal reserve that is perhaps the most beautiful in the country and has been severely damaged due to its large number of coves, even more so from Rosh Hanikra.

The sandy sections have been mostly cleaned but the rocks have a lot of work to do.

Jisr a-Zarqa - Green.

Maagan Michael - Green.

Olga to Mikhmoret - yellow.

Relatively good condition, Olga's part is dirty but the trap is pretty clean.

Poleg area (from Netanya to Apollonia) - red.

Very dirty with tar, large amounts of black areas.

Herzliya - green.

Tel Aviv - green.

The city's beaches were hardly damaged, because the entire beach strip of Tel Aviv is actually a sunken bath, except for a slight damage to Givat Aliya beach in Jaffa.

Mermaid - Green.

The beach was barely damaged.

Palmachim - was yellow and turned red.

Palmachim - Ashdod - red.

9 km section with lots of tar.

Nitzanim (between Ashdod and Ashkelon) - yellow. The

situation improved from red to yellow due to volunteers working there.

Ashkelon beach - yellow.

There is tar that stuck to rocks.

Zikim (from the power station to the border with Gaza) - green .

the only beach clean tar, that area suffered a little and work of volunteers help clean the beach.

It is easier to collect the tar from them by hand.

Volunteers at Hof Hasharon, yesterday (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Dafna Ben-Nun)

The tar can be recycled

"We know that the severe damage was in the Hof Carmel area, from Hadera and south of it, Nahal Taninim," says Arbel.

According to him, in the first two days of the disaster, when there were no southerly winds, the tar did not enter Haifa Bay, "but then it reached the shores of the Krayot, Kiryat Yam beach, Bat Galim, Dado, Shikmona," he adds.

Arbel explains that the damage to the sandy beaches is severe, but it is relatively easier to collect the tar from them by hand.

"Heavy tools can also be collected carefully, although this is not recommended because it harms the sand that is in short supply. Beyond that, the tar can be separated and recycled and used further," he says.

Today (Wednesday), more than 1,800 volunteers from organized groups signed up in advance for volunteering to clean the beaches at 12 volunteer absorption stations set up by the authority on the shores of nature reserves and national parks, to which hundreds more volunteers are expected to join.

Want to volunteer to help clean up the beaches?

Check here which beaches need help.

There are 12 volunteer reception stations along the beaches.

You too can help (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Dafna Ben Nun)

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