Dead Sea in Israel - Ein Gedi Spa. The Dead Sea (Hebrew: ×™Ö¸× ×”Ö·â€â€×žÖ¶Ö¼â€â€×œÖ·â€×—, YÄm HaMélaḥ, Sea of Salt, also Hebrew: ×™Ö¸× ×”Ö·â€â€×žÖ¸Ö¼×•Ö¶×ª, YÄm HaMÄÌweṯ, The Sea of Death; Arabic: البØر الميت‎ About this sound al-Baḥr al-Mayyit), also called the Salt Sea, is a salt lake bordering Jordan to the east, and Palestine and Israel to the west. Its surface and shores are 427 metres (1,401 ft) below sea level, Earth's lowest elevation on land. The Dead Sea has attracted visitors from around the Mediterranean basin for thousands of years. Biblically, it was a place of refuge for King David. It was one of the world's first health resorts (for Herod the Great), and it has been the supplier of a wide variety of products, from balms for Egyptian mummification to potash for fertilizers. People also use the salt and the minerals from the Dead Sea to create cosmetics and herbal sachets. The Dead Sea seawater has a density of 1.240 kg/L, which makes swimming similar to floating.
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