Coinciding with International Oceans Day on Monday, researchers from northern Israel’s Haifa University spotted two rare sperm whales off the country’s southern coast. The researchers from the Morris Kahn Research Station at the Charney School of Marine Sciences were conducting the 11th survey of the Deep Sea Cetacean Project, funded by the Energy Ministry. Their boat set out on Sunday from a sailing club in Ashdod, on the southern coast, as part of a regional research effort to gather data on