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French actress Brigitte Bardot poses with a huge sombrero she brought back from Mexico, as she arrives at Orly Airport in Paris on May 27, 1965. (AP/File)
December 28, 2025, 1:53 pm
Brigitte Bardot, sultry ’60s sex symbol-turned-militant animal rights activist, dies at 91
Iconic French actress abandoned the screen to campaign for animals, including controversial calls to ban Jewish and Muslim ritual slaughter; was convicted 5 times of inciting racial hatred
By Thomas Adamson and Elaine Ganley
Samples of garden ants concealed in syringes are presented to court as two Belgian nationals, a Vietnamese and a Kenyan national appeared for the hearing of their case, after they pleaded guilty to illegal possession and trafficking of garden ants, at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) Law Courts, in Nairobi, Kenya, April 15, 2025. (REUTERS/Monicah Mwangi)
April 17, 2025, 11:23 am
Kenya says it busted plot to smuggle giant ants for exotic animal market
Four suspected foreign smugglers charged, as agents say they uncovered attempt to traffic thousands of rare insects, including queen ants, out of the country
By edwin waita and monicah mwangi
Illustrative: Cows imported from Australia stand in a pen at a government's slaughterhouse near Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia, Tuesday, August 1, 2023. (AP Photo/Binsar Sakkara)
February 5, 2024, 2:40 pm
Australia nixes plan to send livestock on monthlong journey around Africa to Israel
Vessel carrying thousands of sheep and cattle recalled by Canberra due to concern for animals’ health after trip is extended due to Houthi threat
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Israelis demonstrate outside the Hai animal park in Kiryat Motzkin on July 28, 2022. (Courtesy, Campaign to Save the Animals at Hai Animal Park, Kiryat Motzkin)
July 29, 2022, 8:22 am
Animal lovers protest against zoo amid clash of narratives over animal welfare
Agriculture Ministry, Nature Authority, open probe into Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin after social media post shows elephants apparently clinging to wall for shade
By Sue Surkes
Monkeys in a cage at the Mazor Farm near Petah Tikva, in central Israel. (Courtesy, IPSF)
December 14, 2021, 5:56 am
Primate sanctuary, JNF swing into action to take 1,100 monkeys off state’s back
Jewish National Fund to provide land to expand forest home of sanctuary, allowing it to take in macaques left in cramped cages for years after Petah Tikva breeding farm shut down
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
November 23, 2021, 3:14 am
MK launches new Knesset animal welfare caucus, vows to end live shipments of calves
It’s time for others to ‘stop calling us crazy,’ says Yesh Atid’s Yasmin Sacks-Friedman, also highlighting plight of street cats, and caged hens and pigs
By Sue Surkes
A horse is led into the elevator of a Tel Aviv apartment building, April 28, 2021 (Channel 12 screenshot)
April 28, 2021, 8:44 pm
A horse walks into an elevator… of luxury Tel Aviv apt. building
Animal’s owner says there was no sign saying ‘forbidden to bring a horse in’; he and a second man are arrested
By ToI Staff
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
April 4, 2021, 6:51 pm
Despite calls for reform, imports of live animals for meat up 51% this quarter
Rights group slams Agriculture Ministry for ignoring state comptroller call to import more chilled meat, reduce animal suffering at sea
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
February 22, 2021, 12:00 pm
Environment minister joins other lawmakers in pitching for animal lovers’ votes
At conference organized by animal welfare groups, MKs from seven parties and a candidate for an eighth call for an end to live shipments of cattle, caging of poultry
By Sue Surkes
Arno Klarsfeld in an interview broadcast February 10, 2021. (Screenshot/Twitter)
February 13, 2021, 6:36 am
Son of famed French Holocaust survivor likens slaughterhouses to gas chambers
Arno Klarsfeld, an animal rights activist whose father was a well-known Nazi hunter, equates slaughter of lambs to murder of Jews by Nazis
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Tucking in at the Starting Over animal sanctuary in Moshav Herut, central Israel. (Revital Topiol)
December 10, 2020, 11:43 am
Animal sanctuaries on brink of collapse as COVID-19 dries up donations
Animals still need to be fed and cared for, sanctuaries tell Knesset Committee, which also hears that animal abuse cases get lost in labyrinth of bureaucracy
By Sue Surkes
Meital Ben Ari (left) and Adit Romano, founders of Freedom Farm. (Courtesy, Freedom Farm)
November 2, 2020, 9:09 pm
How two businesswomen changed course to give animals a home and a voice
At Freedom Farm, a kid goat rescued from a ritual Passover slaughter mingles with pigs and hens so overfed they cannot stand
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Prime rib and ribeye steaksk at the M25 meat restaurant in Tel Aviv. (Ran Biran)
September 17, 2020, 8:51 pm
Polish parliament drops bill’s proposal to ban export of kosher and halal meat
Amended bill ends breeding of animals for the fur industry, bans the use of circus animals and increases supervision on animal shelters
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Workers at an industrial chicken farm secretly filmed violently handling birds that have been caged under a Ministry of Agriculture-approved pilot project. (Courtesy, Animals Now)
September 7, 2020, 11:53 am
Secret footage shows workers abusing chickens at ministry-backed plant
After Agriculture Ministry allows pilot program at farm to cage chickens intended for meat industry, video appears to disprove claims it will reduce suffering
By Sue Surkes
Common quails (Lior Kislev)
September 1, 2020, 6:00 pm
As hunting season kicks off, activists plead to spare birds in extinction danger
Appeal forms part of nationwide campaign to stop hunting ‘for sport’ and increase fines for illegal hunting
By Sue Surkes
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