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Judaean Desert Location of Judaean Desert in Israel and the West Bank in red. The Judaean Desert or Judean Desert (Arabic: برية الخليل, romanized: Bariyah al-Khalil, Hebrew: מִדְבַּר יְהוּדָה, romanized: Midbar Yehuda) is a desert in the West Bank and Israel that lies east of the Judaean Mountains, so east of Jerusalem, and descends to the Dead Sea.
Rapid urbanization as well as overforestation (planting many dense eucalyptus and pine forests) have caused the destruction of many natural habitats in modern times. One of the most famous examples of habitats destroyed is the drying of swamps including the Hula lake which caused the local extinction of the European water vole and jungle cat.
Judea is a mountainous region, part of which is considered a desert. It varies greatly in height, rising to an altitude of 1,020 metres (3,350 ft) in the south at the Hebron Hills , 30 km (19 mi) southwest of Jerusalem , and descending to as much as 400 metres (1,300 ft) below sea level in the east of the region.
This dry climate zone grows scattered shrub vegetation or desert-grassland in its wetter parts. In the more arid regions, the vegetation is confined to dry riverbeds and gullies, known as wadis and in some places it is almost absent. In some of the greater valleys, desert-scrub and acacia-woodland are to be found. The fauna and flora are mostly ...
Mount Sodom (Hebrew: הר סדום, Har Sedom) is a hill along the southwestern part of the Dead Sea in Israel; it is part of the Judaean Desert Nature Reserve. [1] It takes its name from the biblical city of Sodom , whose destruction is the subject of a narrative in the Bible.
Judaean Desert (5 C, 41 P) N. Negev (39 P) Pages in category "Deserts of Israel" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
[1] [85] There is habitat connectivity between these population centers, with an especially strong wildlife corridor between the Judaean Desert and Negev Highlands. This allows for gene flow . [ 86 ] [ 87 ] An additional small population was established in the Golan Heights through reintroduction in 1970, and now numbers at least 100 ...
Articles relating to the Judaean Desert, a desert in Israel and the West Bank that lies east of Jerusalem and descends to the Dead Sea. Major urban areas in the region include Jerusalem, Bethlehem , the Gush Etzion , Jericho and Hebron .