Rare whale encounter off Israeli coast cut short by missile threat

Rare whale encounter off Israeli coast cut short by missile threat

Israeli marine researchers were forced to cut short a rare encounter with a pair of humpback whales off the coast of Ashdod on Monday due to Iranian missile attacks.The sighting took place during a survey conducted as part of the Deep Sea Whale Project, a research initiative on marine mammals in Israeli waters carried out by the Maurice Kahn Marine Research Station at the University of Haifa. Originally planned as a six-day study of animals in I…