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Illustrative image of Holstein dairy cows. (JackF, iStock by Getty Images)
May 12, 2026, 10:13 pm
Farmers urge policy shift on foot-and-mouth outbreak as farms become overcrowded
Calling for new risk assessment and financial compensation, co-op says new Agriculture Ministry guidelines take the wrong approach
By Sue Surkes
Avi Fraiman, the CEO of Kibbutz Alumim's dairy in southern Israel, January 13, 2026. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
February 4, 2026, 1:19 pm
Amid Finance Ministry dairy reform, besieged Gaza border farm’s fate is curdling, says CEO
Outgoing head Avi Fraiman, who has spent 43 years working at Kibbutz Alumim’s milk farm, says the government should target big food cartels rather than have a cow about the dairies
By Sue Surkes
Screen capture from video of an escaped cow running along Route 1, August 13, 2023. (X. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 13, 2023, 10:56 am
Police chief chases cow down highway
Israel’s top cop, Kobi Shabtai, joins efforts to rope in runaway bovine as it bolts down Route 1
By Stuart Winer
Screen capture from video of a cow that entered a tool store in the Emunim agricultural community, April 18, 2023. (Twitter. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 19, 2023, 11:14 am
Cow blunders through hardware store
Animal saunters onto premises in Emunim, knocking items off shelves and causing thousands of shekels in damage
By ToI Staff
A screen capture from video showing a bull inside the offices of Bank Leumi in the central city of Lod, August 22, 2022. (Screen capture: Twitter)
August 22, 2022, 11:18 am
Bull rampages through bank in central Israel
Owner and municipal veterinarian called to Leumi facility in Lod to capture and restrain bovine; bank says no injuries or damages
By ToI Staff
Dr Sivan Lacker and Ashkar Ginossar at the Yotvata Dairy in southern Israel. (Lior Nordman)
February 11, 2020, 3:35 am
In first pilot of its kind, Israeli dairy won’t separate calves from mothers
Yotvata project will allow female calves to stay with mothers until weaning — but male calves will still be separated, sent off for fattening and slaughter
By Aviv Lavie
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
Illustrative: A Palestinian farmer hoses off the udders of cows at the Jebrini dairy farm in the West Bank town of Hebron, 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
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