Dead Sea an 'ecological disaster', but no one can agree how to fix it An abandoned lifeguard cabin, a rusty pier and mangled umbrellas are all that is left of Ein Gedi, once Israel's flagship beach ...

In fact, the Dead Sea, nestled where Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian ... being pumped out by local factories extracting natural minerals -- potash, bromine, sodium chloride, magnesia, magnesium ...