"King David is coming to this oasis, En Gedi, and Jesus is coming here often, too. This is the deepest place on earth. The Dead Sea is four hundred meters below sea level, and in the center of the lake, the water is four hundred meters deep. When I am a child, the teachers say that in
twenty-five years the Dead Sea will be dry because it evaporates so much water so fast. Now they are telling my granddaughter in school that in twenty-five years the Dead Sea will be dry because it evaporates so much water so fast."
twenty-five years the Dead Sea will be dry because it evaporates so much water so fast. Now they are telling my granddaughter in school that in twenty-five years the Dead Sea will be dry because it evaporates so much water so fast."
I'm standing with Sol, looking at the arid mountain looming disquieting and inhospitable behind a palm of the oasis. We're waiting for the others to change into bathing suits to go swimming in the water of the Dead Sea, and Sol tells me about his son, the colonel, and his daughter who thinks she knows everything and has left home.
