Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee chairwoman Miki Haimovich (Blue and White) and Likud’s MK Katrin Shitrit-Peretz submit a private bill backed by 17 other lawmakers to help environmental and wildlife groups in their bid to get hunting “for sport” banned, and the fines for illegal hunting increased.
The bill provides for prison sentences to be raised from 1-2 years to four years and for fines to be increased from a ceiling of NIS 150,000 ($44,000) to NIS 900,000 (just under $265,000).
A gazelle in the protected reserve of Gazelle Valley in Jerusalem (Flash 90)
There are an estimated 2,000 “sport” hunters who carry licenses from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority. In addition, there are thousands of instances of illegal hunting each year that result in the deaths of up to 1,000 gazelles, which are in danger of extinction in Israel, and hundreds of porcupines, hares, and birds.
The wildlife protection law has not been updated since 1955.
— Sue Surkes
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