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The Dead Sea is a unique place with great potential for external tourism from all over the world, thanks to being the lowest place in the world, the sea with a high salt concentration and the healing properties of the water. This rare natural resource has been drying up in recent decades due to the activity of the Dead Sea factories in the southern lake area, the desert climate and the diversion of water sources and dams that lead water to it. As a result, the water level drops significantly every year, with the rate of decline being one meter per decade. The drop in sea level causes a constant phenomenon of sinkholes forming along its shores. The sinkhole phenomenon in itself is dangerous and the ground beneath it is unstable. Today, these areas are blocked from access and construction in them is mostly prohibited. I saw in this special landscape phenomenon planning and tourism potential, which is why I chose to locate the project in the Mitzpe Shalem area, which is located in the north of the Dead Sea. This is a phenomenon that is only going to grow over time, and that is why I chose not to ignore it and establish the project in this area, near the Sinkholes Park, in order to turn this dynamic phenomenon into a first-of-its-kind tourist attraction that will function as a site and not just a place to visit. The project deals with the planning and implementation of architecture alongside wild nature and proposing a unique solution for dealing with construction on unstable ground. The resort offers a hotel and guest rooms that float above the sinkholes and the Dead Sea and include scenic walking trails made of salt crystals, as the hotel's main attraction for wandering and walking along and inside the sinkholes. The hotel also offers a health and healing center for vacationers and, among other things, a major scientific research center for studying the Dead Sea and the sinkhole phenomenon.