A new article reveals a species of spider discovered for the first time in the south of the Arabah by Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev, director of the Arthropod Collection in the National Nature Collections at the Hebrew University, and Prof. Yael Lubin from Ben-Gurion University and their research teams.

The researchers noticed the special spider during arachnid monitoring they carried out, which was designed to estimate the damages caused by the oil spill disasters in the south of the Arabah in 1975 and 2014.

This research was supported by the Nature and Parks Authority and by the Ma'arag - the National Nature Monitoring Program, and is part of the monitoring program after the oil spill in the past.

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