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Volunteers at the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project, July 2018. (Amanda Borschel-Dan/Times of Israel)
July 9, 2025, 11:29 pm
Donkey bone study unlocks how Canaanites hauled ass from Egypt 4,700 years ago
Isotope teeth analysis from donkey skeletons at Gath shows valuable female asses were imported for ritual burial under homes, whereas local animals were butchered and eaten
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Bedouin boys ride on a donkey near Mitzpe Ramon in southern Israel, August 2009. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
February 21, 2022, 11:23 pm
Child’s death caused by runaway car, not donkey, say police
Death of a 5-year-old Bedouin boy near Mitzpe Ramon was originally attributed to a donkey, but cops later discovered otherwise
By ToI Staff
The community of Mitzpeh Ramon (Doron Horowitz/Flash90)
February 20, 2022, 7:35 pm
5-year-old boy killed by donkey near Mitzpe Ramon
Child safety group says that since 2012, eight children have died in accidents involving animals, six of them members of Bedouin communities
By ToI Staff
A doctor inspects a donkey at the Safe Haven for Donkeys sanctuary in the town of Rujayb, east of the city of Nablus in the West Bank, on February 25, 2021 (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
March 9, 2021, 1:06 pm
Charity provides West Bank shelter for unsold and abandoned donkeys
Safe Haven For Donkeys rescues the animals that can’t attract buyers at market because they are young and not yet at full strength; also offers free drop-in treatment
By Hossam Ezzedine
Mahmoud Sarhan with what appears to be a donkey painted to look like a zebra, at a zoo in Cairo, Egypt (Facebook photos)
July 27, 2018, 11:44 pm
Egyptian zoo’s zebra appears to be a painted donkey
Local student posts photos of animals to Facebook, with story quickly going viral, though the facility insists the animal is real
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A skeleton of a donkey dating to the Early Bronze Age III (approximately 2700 BCE) found at the excavations of the biblical city Gath. (Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project)
May 16, 2018, 9:49 pm
Earliest evidence of bridle use found on 4,700-year-old donkey from Bible’s Gath
Teeth of beast of burden used in ritual burial from circa 2,700 BCE show wear that correlates to use of bit, predating arrival of horses to the region by hundreds of years
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Amanda B. Dan
July 7, 2017, 3:58 pm
Amanda B. Dan
Wonder Woman is an ass (and it’s good)
On why she stopped hating that very busy Proverbial woman of valor
In this Friday, Feb. 5, 2016 picture, Egyptian farmer Ahmed Ayman, 14, rides his trained donkey as he jumps over a barrier in the Nile Delta village of Al-Arid about 150 kilometers north of Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
February 10, 2016, 4:36 pm
Jumping donkey leaps to fame in Egyptian village
Ahmed Ayman, a 14-year-old farmer living in the Nile Delta, takes his unusual donkey to Internet stardom
By AP
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