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A poster on a bus stop in Tel Aviv explains that some calves are fed with feces. (Courtesy of Animals Now)
January 12, 2026, 12:33 am
Banned elsewhere in the West, Israel permitting farmers to use feces as cattle feed
Animals Now launches PR campaign against practice, but Agriculture Ministry says ‘adapted feeding solutions’ required when grazing land is limited
By Sue Surkes
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
An undated picture of laying hens in a cage. (Animals Now)
August 4, 2024, 4:15 pm
Regulations enter into effect to ban starvation of hens to increase egg production
Denying hens food for eight to 12 days speeds up annual molting during which fewer eggs are laid and profits fall; animal welfare group: ‘Cruel practice’ crossed all lines
By Sue Surkes
Dikla Nasimi listens to her son Eliron at their home in Avdon on June 29, 2024. (Canaan Lidor/Times of Israel)
July 1, 2024, 2:03 pm
Israelis from town 2 miles from Lebanon forced to return home after running out of funds
After a hotel stay subsidized by a tapped-out Christian organization, Avdon’s 600 residents are refused state housing provided to others within the same distance from border
By Canaan Lidor
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 worker at the poultry pilot project run by the Abayudaya Men's Club Association, near Mbale, Uganda, July 13, 2023. (Sharon Amali)
August 16, 2023, 10:09 pm
How homegrown data-driven farming may save sub-Saharan Africa’s Jews from starvation
Currently surviving through food aid and donors, 10 countries’ Jewish communities come together to share best practices for scientifically proven farming schemes seeded by a US Jew
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)
December 13, 2022, 4:36 pm
In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks
Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year
By Sue Surkes
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
Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform the "kapparot" ceremony on October 3, 2022, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 3, 2022, 5:30 pm
Environment minister urges charity instead of ‘kapparot’ for Yom Kippur
Tamar Zandberg says practice of swinging live chicken around one’s head to absolve sin causes suffering, suggests continuing the tradition by instead giving money
By Sue Surkes
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 man selling eggs at an eggstand in the Machane Yehuda Market, in Jerusalem, January 27, 2018. (Liba Farkash/ Flash 90)
July 25, 2021, 6:32 pm
Farmers irate over planned agriculture reform, say it won’t lower prices
Fresh produce and egg providers say ministries’ plan to cut tariffs, open up import market won’t reduce prices for consumers, and risks destroying Israel’s food security
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Turkeys at a farm in New Jersey in November 2018 (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
April 25, 2019, 7:22 pm
Israel says highly pathogenic strain of bird flu found at northern farm
Agriculture Ministry informs World Organization for Animal Health that flock of 13,000 was culled after H5N8 virus found at Ma’ale Gilboa poultry farm
By ToI Staff
Chickens at the Givat Olam organic farm near the settlement of Itamar, on April 9, 2012. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 15, 2017, 6:57 pm
Israel may eschew European eggs over pesticide risk
Local quotas will be reexamined in bid to avoid importing eggs for the holidays following huge EU contamination
By Melanie Lidman
Barcodes that say XL and M size eggs written on cartons of eggs in Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, May, 12 2013. (Sarah Schuman/ Flash90)
May 17, 2017, 5:51 pm
Health Ministry warns of salmonella outbreak
Israelis informed of safety measures to prevent spread of bacteria from eggs
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Chickens on a free-range farm. (Wikipedia/woodley wonderworks/CC BY 2.0)
February 19, 2016, 8:13 am
Most Israeli poultry infected with bacteria tied to food poisoning
Study finds most fresh chicken home to Campylobacter bacteria, the country’s top cause of gastric disease
By JTA
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