EXTRA! Fake Piranhas Invade Sea of Galilee

From: Forward | Date: December 30, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Hillel Halkin
Forward
12-30-1994
EXTRA! Fake Piranhas Invade Sea of Galilee.

ZICHRON YAAKOV -- "Israelis have a new and possibly deadly enemy...piranha fish in the Sea of Galilee," began a brief item in the Forward of Dec. 16, the caption above which was considerably smaller than the screaming headlines that announced the news in Israel. For several days the scientists and ecologists, who had held the country's hand during a false crocodile alarm two years ago, debated whether the dread fish could survive the winter and breed, and if so, whether Israel's largest lake, which is also one of its ...

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