“Anyone who wants to enjoy a voyage across the entire Dead Sea… should hurry and carry out his wish,” Haaretz reporter Y. Terizi wrote. “And those who want to tour the exotic places along the Dead Sea on the way and also the place called the ‘tongue’ should also make haste, for the sooner it’s done, the better. If not, within a few years you may not have the opportunity to enjoy all that… It is actually very possible that the whole of the Dead Sea will come to look very different from its present appearance and from the way it looked hundreds of thousands and millions of years ago.”
That was written in 1934.
In the 88 years since, that prophecy of doom has been fulfilled. As of the end of 2021, all the Dead Sea beaches in Israel have been abandoned, and many have been totally wrecked by sinkholes. In fact, for most Israelis, the natural Dead Sea is no more than a sliver of blue on the horizon. There are still two places where one can enter the water in an organized way: via several beaches at the sea’s northern tip (legally, in the West Bank), and on the boardwalk at Neve Zohar, in the southern section, where the hotels were built
— source Jews For Justice For Palestinians | Nir Hasson | Jan 19, 2022