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Crocodiles at Jerusalem's Biblical Zoo, August 18, 2024. (Police spokesperson)
August 2, 2026, 8:27 pm
Court freezes transfer of crocodiles to prison moat, putting Ben Gvir’s plan on hold
Following petition from animal rights group against move to surround Ketziot Prison with Nile crocodiles, Jerusalem District Court gives state until Wednesday to respond
By ToI Staff
Wild boars gather in a residential area in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on December 5, 2019 (Menahem Kahana/ AFP)
May 18, 2026, 11:59 am
Haifa’s war on wild boars drops off the grid, as key oversight quietly disappears
Nature and Parks Authority has pulled out of joint project aimed at reducing human-wildlife friction, sparking fears that the city’s streets will become an unchecked hunting ground
By Aviv Lavie
US soldiers pose with three of the ten abandoned dogs from the Gaza border that they will adopt. (Let the Animals Live)
February 9, 2026, 1:12 am
US soldiers who served near Gaza adopt abandoned dogs
After service members bonded with three adult dogs and seven puppies during war, 2 animal rights groups partner to fly the animals to the new owners, now back in America
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A woman and her dog take cover in a stairway in Jerusalem, as a red alert siren sounds during a rocket barrage fired from Gaza into Israel, October 7, 2023. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
October 14, 2023, 7:27 am
As enemy rockets rain down, Israelis provide shelter to displaced pets
The onslaught of terror that poured out of the Gaza Strip on Saturday and the subsequent war has upended large numbers of citizens around the country – and their furry friends
By Shira Silkoff
Israelis demonstrate outside the Hai animal park in Kiryat Motzkin on July 28, 2022. (Courtesy, Campaign to Save the Animals at Hai Animal Park, Kiryat Motzkin)
July 29, 2022, 8:22 am
Animal lovers protest against zoo amid clash of narratives over animal welfare
Agriculture Ministry, Nature Authority, open probe into Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin after social media post shows elephants apparently clinging to wall for shade
By Sue Surkes
Calves on a live shipment from Australia to Eilat for fattening, prior to slaughter, December 2019. (Israel Against Live Shipments)
February 22, 2021, 12:00 pm
Environment minister joins other lawmakers in pitching for animal lovers’ votes
At conference organized by animal welfare groups, MKs from seven parties and a candidate for an eighth call for an end to live shipments of cattle, caging of poultry
By Sue Surkes
Common quails (Lior Kislev)
September 1, 2020, 6:00 pm
As hunting season kicks off, activists plead to spare birds in extinction danger
Appeal forms part of nationwide campaign to stop hunting ‘for sport’ and increase fines for illegal hunting
By Sue Surkes
A general view of The Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, March 11, 2008. (Michal Fattal/Flash90)
April 22, 2017, 1:35 pm
Court scraps plan for new neighborhood next to Jerusalem zoo
Judge accepts appeal of residents and animal rights group that construction will harm animals
By ToI Staff
A screen shot from a video of dogs being burned alive in an abandoned car near the Israeli-Arab city of Umm al-Fahm. (Screenshot: Facebook)
April 17, 2017, 7:16 pm
Police investigate shocking video of dogs being burned alive
Firefighters unable to save canines set ablaze in abandoned car in northern Israel; animals can be heard wailing in disturbing Facebook post
By ToI Staff
A dog rescues her pups from under a rain-drenched container (Courtesy)
January 27, 2016, 5:48 am
Soldiers help mother rescue pups from floodwaters
When rainwater pooled under a container where newborns were huddled, troops sprang to their aid
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo of an Ultra-Orthodox Jewish man holding a chicken later to be slaughtered as part of a Kaparot ritual (photo credit: Pierre Terdjman /Flash90)
September 3, 2013, 11:27 pm
Chief rabbi urges better treatment for chickens in kapparot ritual
David Lau issues letter to ritual organizers and participants stressing that cruelty to animals was not intended by the sages
By JTA
Illustrative photo of cows at a livestock farm (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
December 11, 2012, 9:18 pm
Israeli and Australian authorities to investigate Tnuva over alleged animal cruelty
TV report about company’s Beit She’an slaughterhouse showed multiple instances of abuse against cows, many of them imported from Down Under
By Asher Zeiger
An Air Force guard dog at work, with no shade in sight (Photo credit: Courtesy Let the Animals Live)
May 14, 2012, 7:28 pm
Army dogged by overheated canine lawsuit
Animal rights group protests ongoing violation of law on minimum shade; case could ultimately bring jail threat for military chiefs
By Mitch Ginsburg
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