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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 568

animal testing

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
In this July 29, 2008, file photo, a rhesus macaque monkey grooms another on Cayo Santiago, known as Monkey Island, off the eastern coast of Puerto Rico. Since 1938, the 37-acre island has served as a research colony where the monkeys, originally from India, are studied. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley, File)
June 2, 2020, 1:55 pm
Monkeys, ferrets offer needed clues in COVID-19 vaccine race
Researchers infect animals with the coronavirus to study their bodies’ reaction, but say that much work still needs to be done
By LAURAN NEERGAARD
A monkey being used for experimentation in a laboratory at the Hadassh Ein Karem Hospital in Jerusalem, July 22, 2003. (Flash90) 
May 12, 2020, 6:52 am
Over 400,000 experiments carried out on animals in Israel last year
Nearly half of the 3,537 projects that took place in 2019 involved subjecting the animals involved to the highest levels of pain on scale
By Sue Surkes
Eyal Kochavi, CEO and founder of Vessi Medical Ltd., with a device that has been shown to freeze bladder tumors in pigs (Courtesy)
February 14, 2019, 10:25 am
Israeli startup seeks to freeze bladder tumors after seeing success in pigs
Vessi Medical is looking to raise funds to begin human cryotherapy trials by next year; says treatment for other cancers to follow
By Johanna Chisholm
A Volkswagen Tiguan on display during German carmaker Volkswagen shareholders' annual general meeting, June 22, 2016. (John Macdougall/AFP)
January 31, 2018, 10:35 am
Volkswagen suspends lobbyist over emission tests on humans, monkeys
CEO says auto giant has ‘taken first consequences’ for experiments designed to study effects of diesel exhaust fumes
By Frank Zeller
The exhaust pipes of a VW Diesel car are seen in Frankfurt, Germany, on August 2, 2017. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)
January 29, 2018, 9:40 pm
German car makers spark outrage with exhaust tests on humans
Diesel exhaust tests evoke gas vans used by the Nazis in the Holocaust; major manufacturers disavow study
By AP and ToI Staff
FILE: Activists of a Israeli animal rights organization hold placards as they protest against the intent to ship out few hundreds monkeys from the monkey farm for a medical research abroad, Mazor, Israel on December 19, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 18, 2015, 8:27 pm
Half of animal testing in Israel involves maximum pain allowed
Study finds experiments on animals are up 12%,;almost every animal is killed at end of testing
By ToI Staff
A happy monkey. (Illustrative photo credit: CC BY oandresilva, Flickr)
From the WebFebruary 15, 2015, 8:28 pm
Ady Gil pays $2 million to save monkeys slated for US laboratories
NBC News: An Israeli who struck it rich in the States has bought out an farm in Israel that raised chimps for experimentation
Israeli animal rights activists protest against animal cruelty in Tel Aviv in this illustrative photo. (photo credit: Gili Yaari /Flash90
September 21, 2014, 1:36 pm
Thousands of animal rights activists rally in Tel Aviv
Protesters gather in park chanting ‘6 million, every 20 minutes’ to demonstrate against ill-treatment of animals and meat-eating
By ToI Staff
Nahum Kovalski
September 9, 2014, 6:02 pm
Nahum Kovalski
Animal testing is so 2014
New technology developments could eliminate the need to test medications on animals, saving money and encouraging new drug development
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