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A cow carcass washes up to the shore of the Jaffa dog beach on June 9, 2019. (Screen capture/YouTube)
June 9, 2019, 7:58 pm
For second time in a week, cow carcass washes up on Tel Aviv area beach
Onlookers in Jaffa say they first thought calf was a human being and rushed to move it to shore before realizing it was a long-dead animal
By TOI staff and 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
Police examine the scene of an accident where a man was killed after his car crashed into a cow, February 25, 2018 (Israel Police)
February 25, 2018, 3:13 am
Man dies after his car crashes into cow
Police open an investigation into accident in northern Israel
By TOI staff
A newborn calf named Genie, with facial markings that resemble Gene Simmons, bass player for the rock group KISS, shortly after its birth in Kerrville, Texas, July 28, 2017. (Heather Taccetta via AP)
August 1, 2017, 11:25 pm
Calf with Gene Simmons face rocks Texas ranch
Black and white markings on cow look eerily like KISS’s Jewish bass player’s onstage persona, saving it from slaughter
By AP
Illustrative: A picture taken on July 12, 2017 shows a herd of cows, airlifted from Budapest, at the Baladna livestock production farm in the city of al-Khor, northeast of Qatar. (AFP Photo/Stringer)
July 13, 2017, 4:03 pm
First herd of boycott-busting bovines airlifted to Qatar
Holsteins flown in from Budapest to provide milk for kingdom hit by Gulf state boycott
By David Harding
A Palestinian farmer hoses off the udders of cows at the Jebrini dairy farm in the West Bank town of Hebron, where cow dung is used to produce electricity as an alternative power source, April 10, 2017. (AFP Photo/Hazem Bader)
April 12, 2017, 11:50 am
Palestinian family powers up with cow pies
With the help of Hebron’s Polytechnic University, farmers are using bovine manure to produce electricity for one of the West Bank’s largest dairy plants
By Sarah Benhaida
In this Thursday, April 21, 2016 photo, a cow walks past Israeli military APC in the Golan Heights near the border with Syria. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
May 6, 2016, 12:03 pm
Israeli cowboys live frontier life on Syria’s doorstep
Israeli Golan Heights ‘probably the only place on earth where you will see cows alongside tanks,’ say herders, who dodge land mines, endure occasional spillover from civil war
By Aron Heller and Ariel Schalit
One of the Red Angus bulls born at the Temple Institute‘s farm, at an undisclosed location in Israel. (courtesy Temple Institute)
August 9, 2015, 2:33 pm
To ready for the final redemption, Israelis take red heifers by the horns
The Temple Institute wants to raise $125,000 to breed the holy cows used in an ancient — and future, it hopes — purification rite
By Melanie Lidman
Cows in a dairy barn in Kibbutz Gilgal, located in the Jordan Valley, July 15, 2012. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
From the WebMay 22, 2015, 1:17 am
Milking it: Israel leads the way in dairy tech
Reuters: Israeli cows produce more milk than any others, among other achievements
Heck cows, illustrative (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA 4028mdk09/ Wikimedia)
January 7, 2015, 1:18 am
UK ‘Nazi’ cows culled for aggressiveness
Heck cows brought to Britain slaughtered after they repeatedly attack farm workers
By Stuart Winer
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