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The Dead Sea Marathon is a running event at Ein Bokek on the Israeli shore of the Dead Sea, held on a Friday morning in early February and organised by the Tamar Regional Council. The first edition took place on 1 February 2019, replacing the long-running Ein Gedi Race. The marathon starts and finishes at the Ein Bokek hotel promenade and runs around the southern Dead Sea basin, which the organisers describe as flat and fast. The surface is mostly unpaved dirt road with potholes, cracks and stones, and the last kilometre is on a paved promenade. Runners cross the sea on earth embankments that are not open to the public on other days. The race starts at 6:15, with a cut-off of six hours, and the minimum age is 17. Other distances are 5 km, 10 km, 15 km, a half marathon named in memory of Tomer and Giora Ron, and a 50 km race that serves as the Israeli ultramarathon championship. About 8,500 people took part in the 2026 edition, which sold out two months before the start.
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February at the Dead Sea is mild and dry: average highs are around 22°C and lows around 14°C, with relative humidity near 38% and rain on only three or four days in the month.
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The Dead Sea Marathon was started by the Tamar Regional Council on 1 February 2019. It replaced the Ein Gedi Race, an annual event near the Dead Sea held since 1984. About 2,500 runners took part in the first edition in all distances, and registration closed early. The half marathon is named in memory of Tomer and Giora Ron, sons of Kibbutz Ein Gedi, as a tribute to the heritage of the earlier race.
In the 2022 edition all runners were sent east straight into the sea towards Jordan, on an earth embankment that is not walked on in everyday life and was adapted specially for the participants. A 5 km run and walk for families was added that year, so that children could cross the sea on the embankments for the first time.
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