Dr. Aviad Scheinin, Head of the School’s Marine Apex Predator Lab in the Morris Kahn Research Center, discusses the dead sperm whale that washed up on Tel Aviv beach.

A dead sperm whale recently washed up on a Tel Aviv beach and officials conducted tests to try and determine the cause of death. 
Dr. Scheinin told the Maariv news site that it was a young sperm whale and that its advanced state of decomposing made it difficult to immediately determine the cause of death. Dr. Scheinin also noted that sperm whales are endangered in the Mediterranean Sea. This was the third dead whale to wash up on Israel’s Mediterranean shore this year.