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Tents housing displaced Palestinian families are seen in the central Gaza Strip's Bureij refugee camp on May 1, 2026. (Eyad Baba / AFP)
May 7, 2026, 12:26 pm
Israel says it coordinated delivery of rat pesticides to Gaza to counter infestation
Hundreds of cartons of specialized poisons, 20 tons of pesticide reported delivered in conjunction with US-led Coordination Center, as warm weather and tent city sewage attract rodents
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Displaced Palestinians gather to collect water from a truck at a makeshift tent camp in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, April 30, 2026. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
April 30, 2026, 8:30 pm
Rats infest Gaza’s tent camps, biting children and spreading disease
IDF kills Hamas operative allegedly planning attacks on troops, three reported dead in separate airstrike; Israeli NGO petitions for release of Gazan doctors held without charges
By Reuters, Emanuel Fabian and Nurit Yohanan
Illustrative: A brown rat (Heiko Kiera/Shutterstock.com)
March 16, 2024, 7:15 am
Rail construction in Tel Aviv may be behind a surge in rat-related disease cases
Patients diagnosed with flea-borne typhus and leptospirosis at area hospitals have reported seeing the rodents in their neighborhoods, and even in their homes
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative image of man looking anxious and depressed. (OcusFocus/iStock)
January 29, 2024, 3:20 pm
New Israeli study uncovers molecular connection between anxiety and testosterone
Ben-Gurion University researchers use cutting-edge genetic sequencing to connect the dots between a protein in the brain, low male hormone levels, and mental condition
By Renee Ghert-Zand
FILE - A rat crosses a Times Square subway platform in New York on January 27, 2015. (AP Photo/Richard Drew, File)
August 14, 2023, 1:10 pm
Daily Briefing Aug 14: Alleged Jewish-Iranian spy & why rats may decide a mayoral race
Political correspondent Tal Schneider on Israeli ‘midterms’; military reporter Emanuel Fabian on razed settlement outpost, IDF readiness and settler in custody over West Bank death
By ToI Staff
From L-R President Isaac Herzog, MK Simcha Rothman, Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid, National Unity leader Benny Gantz (Flash 90)
February 15, 2023, 1:33 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 15: Can Herzog change the course of judicial reform?
Senior analyst Haviv Rettig Gur discusses the president’s efforts to mediate the contested plan; health and science writer Nathan Jeffay looks at the results of 3 new studies
By ToI Staff
Skull of a maned rat found in the Judean Desert (via Haifa University)
July 27, 2021, 3:21 pm
Rat bones found in Israel suggest ancient Africa-Europe ecological travel route
Remains point to possible corridor with similar humid climate to East Africa, allowing species, potentially including humans, to trek across deserts
By ToI Staff
A rat drives a tiny robot car in a University of Richmond experiment. (University Richmond/AFP)
October 24, 2019, 6:04 am
Rats trained to drive tiny cars, find it relaxing
Rodents seem to gain satisfaction from mastering a new skill; finding could have implications for treating mental illness
By AFP
Rats seen eating pizza at a branch of Domino's Pizza in Haifa on February 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Ynet)
February 4, 2019, 7:29 pm
Domino’s Pizza CEO apologizes for rats in Haifa branch
Yossi Elbaz says viral video of rodents was the exception, not the rule; Health Ministry finds building in ‘poor condition’
By ToI Staff
Rats seen eating pizza at a branch of Domino's Pizza in Haifa on February 1, 2019. (Screen capture/Ynet)
February 1, 2019, 8:22 pm
Domino’s Pizza shutters Haifa branch following video of rats on the loose
Chain apologizes and shuts the branch for sanitary work, blames recent work on nearby subway system for influx of rodents
By JTA
Illustrative: A rat ( anatolypareev/iStock)
March 23, 2018, 9:01 pm
Jordanian TV host claims Israel sent Bubonic plague-infected rats to Egypt
Bakr Al-Abadi also says Jewish state created Ebola, poisons Egyptian crops in effort to ‘annihilate the Arab world’
By ToI Staff
A display of cell phones during a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) mobile tracking demo in Washington in February 2014 (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
May 29, 2016, 8:28 pm
Cellphone radiation study raises concerns despite low risk
Skeptical experts hold up strange findings in new research claiming link between mobile use and cancer
By Seth Borenstein
(illustrative rat image via Shutterstock)
February 20, 2013, 12:17 pm
Iran rolls out big guns in war on rats
Tehran deploys snipers to eliminate mutant vermin that threaten to overrun the city
By Asher Zeiger
The controversial poster withdrawn from a Swedish art exhibition.
March 17, 2012, 12:20 am
Swedish art show withdraws drawing deemed anti-Semitic
Wiesenthal Center led demands for cancellation of exhibit, which it said echoes Nazi ‘animalization’ of Jews
By Yifa Yaakov and AP
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