It took only fifty years but it has been done. And all for the better.
From the Israeli Internet web site Ynet:
"Mines finally cleared of Jesus baptism site"
"Israel's Defense Ministry clears landmines and unexploded ordnance littered around three churches in Qasr al-Yahud area, on the western bank of the Jordan River over 50 years after they were put there."
"Israeli and foreign engineers sounded the all-clear this week around three churches on the western bank of the Jordan River, near where Jesus is believed to have been baptized, after mines that had marooned the shrines for decades were cleared."
Area still not open to the public but presumably at some point will be.
Area as demined the hard and old fashioned way and not using animals to detect the mines? See previous blog entry regarding same.
https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2015/08/hook-alice.html
coolbert.