What is Kishon River?
[[File:Park Kishon, Haifa 001.JPG|thumb|250px|the kishon river in the kishon park near haifa]] The '''Kishon River''' is a [[river]] in northern [[Israel]]. It is the second biggest river of the shores of the [[Mediterranean Sea]] in Israel. The river starts in the [[Samaria Mountains]]. It goes through the [[Jezreel Valley]]. It goes north beside [[Mount Carmel]]. It flows to the Mediterranean sea. The Kishon River is in the [[Jewish]] [[Bible]] book of [[Book of Judges]]. For many years, this the river was very polluted from of the factories around it. It was the biggest polluted river in Israel. In [[2010]] the Israeli government started a project to clean the river. It built a big public [[urban park]] that will be finished within 10 years. == Other websites == {{Commonscat|Kishon River}} *[http://kishon.org.il/ Kishon River Authority] (Hebrew) *[http://archive.greenpeace.org/majordomo/index-press-releases/1998/msg00280.html Greenpeace Press Release on Kishon River] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041128234342/http://archive.greenpeace.org/majordomo/index-press-releases/1998/msg00280.html |date=2004-11-28 }} *[http://israel21c.org/environment/eco-park-for-a-green-peace/ Eco Park For A Green Peace] {{Coord|32|49|N|35|02|E|display=title|region:IL_type:river_source:}} [[Category:Rivers of Israel]] [[Category:Haifa]] {{multistub|geo|Asia}}