Municipal authorities closed north Tel Aviv’s Tzuk (Cliff) Beach on Saturday after a shark was spotted off the Mediterranean coast.
On Thursday, a shark was seen off the coast of the southern Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam, marking the third such sighting in Israel over the past two weeks.
A day earlier, a shark was seen off the coast of Ashkelon, and two weeks ago another was spotted in Ashdod—both cities located south of Bat Yam. It was not immediately clear whether the same shark was involved in the four incidents.
Last April, a man was killed in a shark attack off the coast of Hadera, north of Tel Aviv.
Shark attacks are extremely rare in Israel.
The only other recorded incident dates back to the British Mandate, when a police officer was attacked off the coast of Tel Aviv.
