Daliyot River

The Jordan River and the streams coming down from the Central Golan create a landscape of swamps and open water surfaces, variously called deltas, estuaries or lagoons.

The Daliyot River is one of five rivers running through the Bethsaida Valley[1] (Batikha or Buteikha in Arabic): the Jordan at the northern edge, Meshushim (Wadi el-Hawa in Arabic; collects the waters of the Katzrin Stream [he] and Zavitan Stream [he]), Yehudiya (with Batra as a tributary), Daliyot - together they form the Meshushim and Zaki Lagoons before reaching the Sea of Galilee -, and Sfamnun.

The Daliyot River estuary, best known as Majrassa or Majrase,[2] is the largest freshwater nature reserve controlled by Israel.

[1] It carries water from the Golan Heights and forms lagoons when it reaches the Sea of Galilee.

[1] The Majrase Nature Reserve stretches over 5000 dunams, some of it agricultural land.