Volunteers cleaned up plastic bottles and debris along the shore of Herzliya, a city just north of Tel Aviv. The Tel Aviv shoreline was cited in a World Wildlife Fund report last week as being “the third most plastic polluted shoreline in the Mediterranean,” i24news reports.
WATCH: Beach cleanup along Mediterranean coast tackles pollution in Israel
An Israeli man with a flag on his shirt plays paddleball on the beach, during Israel's 66th Independence Day anniversary celebrations in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Israel is celebrating its annual Independence Day, marking 66 years since the founding of the state in 1948. (AP/Oded Balilty)