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<\/p>\nA shark was sighted this Friday morning off Neve Yam beach in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council area, near Atlit. \u201cEveryone get out immediately,\u201d a public announcement at the site was heard saying.<\/p>\n
The Hof HaCarmel Regional Council said: \u201cThe council is operating in coordination with the Nature and Parks Authority and all relevant bodies. Out of caution, guidance has been issued not to enter the water until further notice. Teams on the ground are accompanying the event and ensuring public safety.\u201d<\/p>\n
Shark sighted off Neve Yam beach in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council area<\/p>\n
(Video: Section 27A)<\/p>\n
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On Thursday a shark was spotted off one of Bat Yam\u2019s beaches as well \u2014 those beaches were closed and bathers evacuated. \u201cThe rescue teams began evacuating bathers from the water, and the beaches will remain closed until further notice,\u201d the municipality said. <\/p>\n
The shark was spotted on one of the city\u2019s southern beaches by a surfer who reported it to the rescue teams. The municipality added that \u201cafter an initial check it was decided, in accordance with procedure, to close the beaches now so as not to take unnecessary risks.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n 1 View gallery <\/p>\n Shark spotted off coast of Ashkelon earlier this week<\/p>\n (Photo: Gadi Kabalo)<\/p>\n According to indications, this is the same whale shark first seen about two weeks ago off the Ashdod coast. A swimmer testified that it was a whale shark, which is not dangerous to humans, so it is likely the same individual sighted in Ashdod and Netanya. Then, about two weeks ago, Ashdod municipality announced the closure of the city\u2019s bathing beaches after rescue teams identified during searches what at first appeared to be a shark \u2014 which then turned out to be a whale shark, the largest fish in the world<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Nature and Parks Authority noted that despite its enormous size, the whale shark (Rhincodon typus), also dubbed \u201cthe largest fish in the world,\u201d is not dangerous to humans and feeds only on plankton, small fish and tiny crustaceans that it filters from the water. This species is classified as endangered by the IUCN. Its length is about 12 meters\u201314 meters and its lifespan may reach 100 years or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A shark was sighted this Friday morning off Neve Yam beach in the Hof HaCarmel Regional Council area,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[49,48,66,323],"class_list":{"0":"post-202456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202456","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\u05d4\u05db\u05e8\u05d9\u05e9](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/S1MVZgV2ee_0_0_850_479_0_x-large.jpg\" "\\"Shark")
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