Article: Ain't nothing like the eel thing

D'VORA BEN SHAUL
Jerusalem Post
06-14-1996
THERE used to be a lot more freshwater eels in Israel but the pollution of rivers and streams has pretty well wiped them out in most places. A few rivers, particularly Taninim, still have them, and there are quite a few in the Kinneret. To those who don't know them they look very much like snakes but they are actually fish.

They even have fins and scales but the fins are tiny and the scales are difficult to see without a magnifying glass. The local eel is the European eel, (Anguilla anguilla in Latin, tslofah europi in Hebrew). It is found in the rivers and streams of Europe and North Africa. These eels are about a meter-and-a-half ...

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