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Tova Saul cradles one of the two kittens she most recently rescued in Jerusalem's Old City, May 2026 (Sarah Tuttle-Singer)
July 15, 2026, 3:02 am
Tova Saul, the cat rescuer of Jerusalem
In this week’s Peoples of Israel, a new series featuring the mosaic of personalities walking the Land, we meet a woman whose life’s calling is to care for animals in distress
By Sarah Tuttle-Singer
Illustrative: Veterinary hospital in Israel. (Courtesy)
July 3, 2026, 8:57 am
Superbugs threaten vision in animals – and can jump to humans, Israeli researchers warn
Scientists at Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Koret School of Veterinary Medicine say drug-resistant bacteria may cause a greater chance of blindness in 10 years; study calls for smarter antibiotic use
By Diana Bletter
A repatriated dog after arriving at Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos on March 18, 2026, after being evacuated from Abu Dhabi amid the escalating US-Israeli conflict with Iran. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)
March 19, 2026, 8:39 pm
Special Greek flight airlifts pets and their owners from war-hit Mideast
Passengers arriving in Athens from Abu Dhabi say it was hard to find a flight that would accept their canine and feline companions; one says her cat dealt with war better than her
By SRDJAN NEDELJKOVIC and Elena Becatoros
Gili the poodle, who is awaiting surgery for injuries sustained during an Iranian missile attack on the southern city of Eilat on March 14, 2026. (Courtesy)
March 16, 2026, 8:03 pm
Family fundraises for poodles badly hurt in Iranian missile attack
Surgery for Tsili and Gili expected to cost tens of thousands of shekels, and owner Danielle Haroush ‘can barely make ends meet,’ says sister
By Sue Surkes
Shany Dror with her dog Mitos. (Courtesy)
January 17, 2026, 9:13 am
Israeli researcher finds that by eavesdropping, ‘genius’ dogs learn words like toddlers
In Shany Dror’s study, super-smart canines had 90% accuracy in fetching toys whose names they learned directly or overheard; findings shed light on how language learning may have evolved
By Diana Bletter
A 12,000-year-old Natufian clay figurine from the Nahal Ein Gev II archaeological site near the Sea of Galilee, depicting a woman and a goose, and an artistic reconstruction of the scene. Its discovery was announced in a PNAS study on November 17, 2025. (Laurent Davin/Hebrew University)
November 17, 2025, 10:50 pm
Goose bumps: 12,000-year-old figurine from Israel shows surreal woman-bird mating scene
Tiny clay sculpture unearthed at Nahal Ein Gev in the Galilee is the earliest known figurine depicting human-animal interaction, as documented by study in prestigious PNAS journal
By Rossella Tercatin
Haifa Educational Zoo (Louis Ariel Goldschmidt Zoo) has more than 100 types of animals, including primates, reptiles, birds, predators, and herbivores, October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
June 27, 2025, 10:21 am
Days after end of Operation Rising Lion, Haifa zoo roars back into action
After repeatedly being forced to close due to conflicts since Oct. 7, 2023, the zoological garden welcomes visitors back – and its staff has a message about their mission
By Diana Bletter
Mouse uses its whiskers to touch and hear its environment. (Shutterstock)
June 4, 2025, 10:29 am
In breakthrough that may aid blind, Israeli scientists find mice use whiskers to ‘hear’
Weizmann Institute researchers use AI models to show the act of ‘whisking’ allows mice to generate sounds that, encoded in their brain’s auditory cortex, aid them in navigation
By Diana Bletter
Known as Maya in Israel and Anassa in Cyprus, this Mediterranean monk seal, one of the rarest marine animals in the world, rests with her pup in Cyprus in October 2024. (Courtesy/Haris Nicolaou)
May 16, 2025, 12:09 pm
Israeli and Cypriot researchers team up on extreme cave makeover for rare monk seals
A rehabilitation project in northern Israel aims to provide safe and dry breeding places for the endangered marine mammals, of which only 600-700 remain in the world
By Diana Bletter
Left: Meir Orbach from the the Zinman Institute of Archaeology – University of Haifa holding the Extinct rhino jaw from Nesher Ramla site. (Prof. Reuven Yeshurun). Right: Auroch skeleton. (Wikipedia)
March 7, 2025, 4:04 pm
Early humans in Israel really liked their steaks, new study shows
While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, archaeological remains from the Nesher Ramla site have revealed
By Rossella Tercatin
Dr. Raanan Rafaeli holds a feline patient during the war in Kiryat Shmona. (Courtesy)
October 13, 2024, 1:10 am
Hezbollah fire doesn’t deter dedicated vets treating animals in war-torn Kiryat Shmona
Two veterinarians in the officially evacuated city keep their clinics open, at times forced to amputate the legs of dogs caught up in the terror group’s rocket attacks
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative photo of a man training his dog, in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, on January 10, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
June 19, 2024, 9:15 am
TAU’s $10 million Doolittle prize seeks scientists who can ‘talk to the animals’
The award inaugurated this month at Tel Aviv University hopes to spur research, with the aim of creating human-animal dialogue ‘at their own level’
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative photo of a baby chimpanzee and her human caregivers, at the Jerusalem Zoo, on March 29, 2007. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90
June 1, 2024, 7:51 am
TAU prize offers $10 million to quack code of animal communication
Annual contest seeks to stimulate the use of AI in animal language research with ‘the ultimate aim of interspecies communication’
By Gavriel Fiske
This photo released by the Iranian Defense Ministry on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2023, claims to show a rocket with a capsule carrying animals as it is launched from an undisclosed location into orbit, Iran. (Iranian Defense Ministry via AP)
December 6, 2023, 12:43 pm
Iran claims to send animals into space to prepare for human missions
Western countries suspicious Iranian space program could be used for military purposes
By AP
People take part in the Procession of Animals before the Blessing of the Animals during the St. Francis Day Service at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on October 1, 2023. (Leonardo Munoz/AFP)
October 3, 2023, 12:19 am
Priests bless parade of pets at New York cathedral
Manhattan Episcopal church invites four-legged — and some no-legged — guests to mark feast of St. Francis of Assisi, known as patron saint of pets and animals
By AFP
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