Is this what the Red Sea looked like when the waters came rushing back after the Israelites had crossed?

Watch this flash flood from Israel’s Negev Desert as an empty riverbed comes roaring back to life.

 

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Uriel Heilman is JTA’s managing editor, responsible for coordinating JTA’s editorial team. He re-joined JTA in 2007 after a stint doing independent reporting in Israel and the Arab world. Before that, he served as New York bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post. An award-winning journalist, he has worked as a reporter for a variety of publications in the United States and in Israel.