Dead Sea dedication

November 1, 2010 - 3:51 PM by

(Photo: Dvir Almog)

Bike gangs (as in those who ride motorcycles) will eternally retain the connotation of rabble-rousing carousers, as stereotyped by the Hells Angels, Marlon Brando in The Wild Bunch and countless other films.

But bike gangs don’t necessarily have to be bad guys, and 100 members of the Israel Harley Davidson club will prove it next week when they do a warm-up ride to the Dead Sea in preparation for a Love-the-Dead-Sea Bike Weekend that will take place in June 2011.

The bikers will call to vote for the Dead Sea in the finals of the New7Wonders of Nature campaign, in which the Lowest place on Earth is currently competing against 27 other finalists.

“This is a warm-up ride taking place one year before the final announcement of the seven winners,” said General (Res) Udi Adam, one of the Harley Davidson bikers and initiators of the ride. “We hope to have more than 1,000 bikers from bike clubs all over the country riding in the Love-the-Dead-Sea Bike Weekend in June 2011, so that the noise of our exhausts will be heard throughout the Dead Sea.”

The Dead Sea is one of 28 finalists competing for the final seven places in the New7Wonders of Nature campaign out of an initial count of 420 natural sites around the world. Other finalists include the Amazon River, the Galapagos Islands, the Grand Canyon, the Great Barrier Reef and the Maldives. About a billion votes are expected to be cast before the campaign ends on 11.11.11, and it is estimated that the winning seven finalists will need to secure about 300-400 million votes.

Under the slogan “No floating voters! Vote for the Dead Sea as one of the New7Wonders of Nature,” the Tourism Ministry is calling on all fans of the Dead Sea around the world to vote for the lowest place on earth.

To do so, you don’t even need to buy your own Harley and don their colors. You can go into the Tourism Ministry’s dedicated website, or the campaign’s website .

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3 Comments on Dead Sea dedication

  1. michal on Tue, Nov 2nd 2010 11:38 AM

    2. You may also join the official facebook page : http://facebook.com/votedeadsea

  2. Olga on Tue, Nov 16th 2010 4:17 PM

    3. I voted here http://www.votedeadsea.com
    How about you?

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