Sue Surkes is The Times of Israel s environment reporter.
Two dead dolphins found on Israel s Mediterranean coast await autopsy at the Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research, April 6, 2021. (Dr Aviad Sheinin)
Two dead dolphins washed up on southern Israeli shores Tuesday, one at a beach in the city of Ashkelon and the other, later in the day, at a marine reserve just south of Nitzanim beach.
Both were taken for autopsy at Haifa University’s Morris Kahn Center for Marine Research. It was thought that the first one, a young male, might have suffocated after getting tangled in a fishing net.