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Ein Prat Nature Reserve, which has water all year round, was set on fire tonight

About 160 dunams were burned last night in Ein Prat, which is one of the favorite places in the Judean Desert, and the only one where there is water almost all year round.

The circumstances of the fire are being investigated, but it is estimated that it was an arson

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• Nature reserve

Ziv Reinstein

Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 11:54 Updated: 12:24

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Ignition in the Nahal Prat Nature Reserve (Photo: Kobi Helfgott, RTG)

Nature often pays the price of war and struggle between peoples, this time the Ein Prat Nature Reserve in the northern Judean Desert.

The fire, which was discovered on Monday night, consumed about 160 dunams out of about 28,000 dunams on which it covers.

The Nature and Parks Authority says that this is probably a suspicion of arson.

The fire took place in the area of ​​Beit Yael near the shepherds' pool, an area that is hidden from view and is not near the parking lot and the regulated entrance to Art.

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The reserve after the fire, this morning (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Shmuel Botbul)

Firefighters in the burning reserve, last night (Photo: Nature and Parks Authority, Kobi Helfgott)

Ein Prat is a spring that springs west of the Nahal Prat Reserve.

The reserve was declared in 1988 to protect the banks and canals of the Euphrates River and its tributary Nahal Mikhmesh (Wadi Swinit).

The reserve is spread over about 30 km and covers 28,050 dunams. The western end of the reserve, near Geva Binyamin (Adam), rises about 600 meters above sea level, while the eastern end of the reserve, near Jericho, is about 200 meters below sea level. .

river Euphrates, also known as Wadi Kelt, considered the nature of popular, especially in summer, due to a number of springs whose water flows all year, like the eye of a week Ein input and Ein Prat, stated. reserve several hiking trails is not long, with entrance fee. area work There are also two monasteries - Fern Monastery and St. George Monastery - that feed on the water of the springs near aqueducts.

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