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Chickens inside a chicken coop in Israel on August 11, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
September 7, 2025, 6:26 pm
Poultry producers warn first-ever imports of chickens will destroy local farms
Association of Poultry Farmers says 6,000 jobs at risk, mainly on Gaza and northern borders; importers say ‘fair competition will benefit consumers’
By Sue Surkes
Two Holocaust survivor families on the Vineland, New Jersey-area poultry farm they jointly purchased in 1947. From left to right: Dina and Dorothy Liverant, standing next to a visitor, with Ruth, Bronia, and Nuchim Grin, Seth Stern's mother and grandparents. (Photo courtesy of Stern)
September 2, 2023, 3:47 am
How Holocaust survivors flocked to NJ to start a thriving poultry farming industry
Seth Stern’s new book ‘Speaking Yiddish to Chickens’ tells how his grandparents joined thousands of other Jews in a plucky venture as they rebuilt their lives in rural America
By Rich Tenorio
A 'Keep Out' sign at Moshav Beit Herut in central Israel warns of a bird flu outbreak, November 28, 2022. (Agriculture Ministry)
November 28, 2022, 8:36 pm
Bird flu detected in Israel in 2nd case within days
Nature authorities closely monitoring wild birds, weighing whether to stop feeding cranes in northern Israel to prevent crowding, avoid risk of last year’s mass infection
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Agriculture Ministry inspectors at a coop on Kibbutz Rosh Tsurim, where bird flu was discovered, on March 8, 2011. (Gershon Elinson / FLASH90)
November 22, 2022, 11:37 pm
Bird flu found in northern Israel, same strain as catastrophic 2021 outbreak
Turkeys in slaughterhouse near Beit She’an are first cases of avian influenza this winter; surrounding farms quarantined as authorities look to prevent spread to wild birds
By Sara Serfaty
An illustrative photo of a cigarette but from January 2017. (Flash90)
September 17, 2022, 10:05 am
‘We felt nauseous’: Family finds cigarette butt in packaged chicken from supermarket
Oded Chen from Karmiel says his daughters no longer want to eat chicken; factory acknowledges it could be responsible, apologizes for ‘distress’
By ToI Staff
An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)
June 20, 2022, 11:37 pm
Cages for laying hens banned from new coops, to be phased out in existing ones
Knesset panel approves new animal welfare regulations that also ban starving hens to up egg production. Advocacy group lauds ‘victory for animals and public,’ after 13-year battle
By Sue Surkes
A sign at the David Elliot Poultry stall at KosherFest 2021 reads: 'This year's chicken shortage has been stressful for us all.' (Courtesy of Philissa Cramer/ JTA)
April 12, 2022, 3:54 am
Can’t find poultry for Passover? America’s kosher chicken shortage, explained
An unusual array of forces have conspired to depress production in the United States, and kosher plants have suffered alongside everyone else
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Agriculture Ministry staff work in protective gear to clean up dead cranes infected with Avian Influenza (bird flu) from the Hula Lake Reserve in northern Israel, January 2, 2022. (Moraz Brom/Flash90)
January 7, 2022, 5:05 pm
Bird flu outbreak in northern Israel ebbs; no humans harmed, officials say
Agriculture Ministry notes ‘encouraging recovery’ over past two days; cleanup efforts at Hula Lake Reserve expected to finish next week ahead of migration season
By ToI Staff
Ultra Orthodox Jews perform the Kapparot ceremony on September 13, 2021, in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 14, 2021, 4:12 pm
Environment Ministry: Replace cruel chicken ‘kapparot’ with donations
Pre-Yom Kippur ritual of swinging live chickens around the head to absolve sin causes great suffering, says minister
By Sue Surkes
Dr. Yuval Cinnamon, an embryo specialist who heads the NRS Poultry research group in Rehovot's Volcani Institute, showing the lab where he and his team are attempting to change the genetic technology of eggs (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
July 16, 2021, 6:42 pm
Israeli tech aims to block hatching of billions of male chicks fated for culling
Rehovot team finds ‘genetic modification’ to halt embryogenesis, stopping formation of males when they are just a cell cluster; males routinely killed because they can’t lay eggs
By Jessica Steinberg
A technician displays lab-grown chicken meat in a sealed bag at the food-tech startup SuperMeat in the central town of Ness Ziona on June 18, 2021 (JACK GUEZ / AFP)
June 23, 2021, 10:46 am
Lab-grown chicken ‘food revolution’ gathers pace at Ness Ziona eatery
SuperMeat is offering cultured meat burgers and more at its restaurant as it awaits regulatory approval for mass production; owners hope industry can be game-changer for the world
By Jonah Mandel
Chicken in crates and on the floor at the Off Hagalil poultry processor, in footage aired on February 2, 2020. (Screen capture: Channel 20)
February 2, 2021, 11:10 pm
Whistleblower footage shows filthy conditions at Galilee poultry plant
Ministry fires vet training to be inspector after he complains of Off HaGalil employees picking carcasses off floor and throwing them back onto production line
By Sue Surkes
Performer John Legend, his wife Chrissy Teigen and their daughter Luna greet a crowd gathered during a drive-in "get out the vote" rally featuring Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, Nov. 2, 2020, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Michael Perez)
January 19, 2021, 10:45 pm
Chrissy Teigen makes her first Shabbat dinner
‘Wow I could never do this every Friday but it was beautiful!’ tweets model and TV personality, after preparing chicken soup, kugel and more
By Jessica Steinberg
A chicken burger advertised on the website the The Chicken, a restaurant that serves lab-grown meat in Nes Tziona. (Screen capture via JTA)
November 20, 2020, 11:08 pm
‘World’s 1st lab-grown meat restaurant’ opens in Tel Aviv suburb
The Chicken sets up shop in Ness Ziona and offers two burgers made of ‘crispy cultured chicken fillet’ grown from cells in SuperMeat’s factory across the street
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Kulthum the chicken looking guilty after it was discovered where she was hiding all the eggs in Tel Aviv on May 25, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
April 7, 2020, 11:49 am
LISTEN: How to throw off the yoke of supermarkets and produce your own eggs
With the country experiencing an egg shortage before Passover, raising your own fowl could have kept you in steady supply even while cooped up
By Melanie Lidman
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