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File: People barbecue during Passover in Herzliya, April 13, 2025 (Tal Gal/Flash90)
April 20, 2026, 2:06 pm
Despite cost of living hikes, Israelis are eating more beef, veal
Annual per capita consumption of 20.2 kilograms of bovine meat last year was 7% up on the year before, Agriculture Ministry says; purchases set to jump for Independence Day
By Sue Surkes
People walk past a poster by artist TVBOY depicting President Donald Trump wearing a construction worker outfit and holding a placard reading in Spanish: My Gaza is your Gaza, is posted on a street in Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2025. (Gregorio Borgia/AP PHOTO)
January 15, 2026, 3:17 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 15: Day 832 – Trump wills Gaza plan forward, despite Hamas noncompliance
Zman Yisrael founding editor Biranit Goren discusses the US vis-a-vis Iran and Gaza; reporter Sue Surkes brings a Kibbutz Be’eri update, and looks at the use of feces as cattle feed
By Jessica Steinberg, Biranit Goren and Sue Surkes
A herd of cattle graze in the Golan Heights (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
June 24, 2022, 9:48 am
Government deal to boost beef industry pilloried as bad for climate, public health
Agriculture minister says NIS 420 million accord will help cut prices, while rights activists say permanent customs tax exemption on import of live calves is a license for abuse
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
January 3, 2022, 5:37 pm
Numbers of animals imported for fattening, slaughter up 42% last year
Agriculture Ministry says a record 856,630 calves and lambs shipped to Israel in 2021; 7 bills in Knesset seek to halt live shipments within 3 years, import chilled meat instead
By Sue Surkes
Sheep being shipped for fattening and slaughter in multi-story vessels. (YouTube screenshot)
July 7, 2021, 9:09 pm
Record number of calves and lambs shipped to Israel for fattening, slaughter
More than half a million animals transported to country in first six months of 2021, up 59% over same period last year
By Sue Surkes
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
This January 16, 2019 photo shows a a first lab-grown steak during a presentation by the Israeli company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
October 29, 2020, 3:08 pm
Israeli protein startups flourish in bid to cut meat’s carbon footprint
Big food companies investing in alternatives to conventional meat and dairy, due to environmental damage caused by livestock farming and need to feed 10 billion mouths by 2050
By Sue Surkes
Empty shelves at a supermarket in Tel Aviv. Israelis are stockpiling food as the government takes stricter precautions against the Corona virus, March 10, 2020. (Yossi Zamir/FLASH90)
March 11, 2020, 8:33 pm
Amid virus, Israel has enough food available for foreseeable future — officials
Despite pandemic wreaking havoc on supply chain, country will have plenty of supplies through Passover and beyond by relying on produce grown here, according to agriculture experts
By Sue Surkes
A calf in a headclamp being dehorned without anesthetic at a western Australian cattle farm. (Kan TV screenshot)
December 5, 2019, 4:09 pm
Australian minister to probe harrowing footage from cattle farm supplying Israel
Alannah MacTiernan says she will fast-track regulations requiring pain relief for stock before de-horning, after secretly filmed material shows workers abusing animals
By Sue Surkes and ToI Staff
A cow in a western Australian cattle farm still breathes after a worker who has never held a weapon fires four bullets into its body, in footage screened on Israeli TV, December 2, 2019. (Kan TV screenshot)
December 3, 2019, 1:13 pm
Harrowing footage emerges of abuse at Australian cattle farms that supply Israel
Secretly filmed material shows workers beating, kicking, electrocuting, standing on and shooting at animals for fun, denying them painkillers and vet visits to save money
By Sue Surkes
Clearing rain forest in northern Argentina for the Cresud company and preparing it for pasture. (Greenpeace)
September 25, 2019, 6:29 pm
Israeli supermarket accused of selling Argentine beef raised in cleared forest
Greenpeace: Company that supplies meat to Shufersal cut down 300,000 acres of Gran Chaco forest; entire supply chain owned by Argentinian Jewish businessman Eduardo Elsztain
By Sue Surkes
Rounding up the herd on the Golan Heights (Courtesy Mire Golan)
October 31, 2018, 12:37 am
Herd mentality: Golan Heights cowboys form cooperative for top-quality beef
Cattle need a calm life for tender beef. But for the ranchers contending with lack of demand for local product, it’s not so easy
By Jessica Steinberg
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes (Flickr/Agencia de Noticias ANDES/CC BY-SA 2.0)
July 8, 2016, 5:34 am
Paraguay president to visit Israel seeking expanded ties
With collaboration growing in agriculture and other fields, Asuncion looks to up exports, tech cooperation
By JTA
Steaks and other beef products are displayed for sale at a grocery store in McLean, Va. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
February 11, 2016, 6:34 am
Israel to import US beef for first time in over a decade
Nebraska factory has received approval from Israeli regulators; imports stopped in 2003 over mad cow fears
By ToI Staff
This classic British meat pie can be made in stages and is a perfect hearty Passover main. (Tami Ganeles-Weiser/JTA)
April 4, 2015, 1:53 am
A hearty passover pie for anglophiles
This Shredded Brisket Cumberland Pie may just be the answer for those seder leftovers
By Tami Ganeles-Weiser
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