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Caves of the Northern Shfela and the Coastal Plain

Orange Door Cave

Modi'in Illit

A cave consisting mainly of a low chamber about 35 m long, about 6 m wide and about 1.5 m high. Throughout the chamber there is an enormous richness of beautiful cave deposits, including tiny helictites growing in a tangled, dense structure. On the western side of the center of the chamber, among curtains of speleothems, there is a large water pool, 3X1.2 m, with a depth of up to 0.5 m. In August 2015 heavy equipment work was reported in the area of the cave. An inspection by the INPA found that the cave had been destroyed for construction purposes.

Ein el-Midya Cave

Hasmonean Hills

A small cave consisting mainly of an open chamber. The rounded morphology and the dissolution domes opening in the chamber ceiling indicate that the cave formed by phreatic dissolution processes that acted in Turonian limestone (Bina Fm.).

Concrete Cones Cave

Kiryat Sefer

A large cave that developed by phreatic dissolution processes in Turonian limestone (Bina Fm.). The structure of the cave is that of a wide chamber measuring 51X28 m, with a height ranging between 0.3 and 2.5 m.

Minhat Hinuch Cave

Kiryat Sefer

A short cave whose walls and ceiling are covered along its entire length with large cave corals, most of them broken. It appears that this cave, too, was discovered during the site preparation work for building the settlement, and that its original length was certainly greater.