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Jan. 14, 2021
A new stone bridge, 90 meters (295 feet) long, stretches above Nahal Taninim near the mouth of the river. It has four large arches, and pedestrians and bicyclists can comfortably cross from the southern to the northern bank of the river and back without getting their feet wet.
The separate worlds of Jisr al-Zarqa and of Kibbutz Ma’agan Michael have been connected, and the former, an Arab town whose name means “a bridge over the blue river,” has been given an actual bridge.
The bridge isn’t entirely new. It’s a reconstruction of the bridge that was built by the rulers of Ottoman Palestine in 1898 in honor of the visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany to the Holy Land.