A head case strikes again

Residents of a Beersheba neighborhood had a rude awakening on Monday morning when they discovered several severed cow and sheep heads in a public fountain.

Near the animal heads was graffiti reading, “In suffering all are equal, for a meal there is a replacement, but there is none for life,” leading authorities to deduce the overnight vandalism was the work of animal rights activists.

“I saw the head of a cow and a lamb from the bus,” one resident told Ynet, adding that “the sight was horrible… Children going to kindergarten and school in the morning need to see these things? I don’t know what they are trying to achieve.”

City employees, responding to multiple phone calls from residents, arrived on the scene and removed the animal heads. Police said they were investigating the incident and looking for a connection to a similar occurrence of animal-rights vandalism in Tel Aviv in March.

In that incident, a sign decrying the killing of animals was attached to a cow head found on Ibn Gabirol street in Tel Aviv, and a sign on a sheep head found in a Jaffa public fountain read, “the walls of the slaughterhouse have become transparent.” The fountain had been painted red by the vandals.

Two additional heads, of a goat and a sheep, were found around the same time at Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Center and on Jerusalem street in Jaffa, and were believed to be the work of the same culprits.

Gabe Fisher contributed to this report.