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Illustrative: An illegally held lion cub discovered by Israeli police in the central city of Tira on April 24, 2025. (Israel Police)
May 13, 2026, 6:54 pm
Palestinian handed 30-month sentence for trying to sell illegally obtained lion cub
As part of plea deal, defendant also pleads guilty to trying to sell additional exotic animals, owning an illegal M-16 rifle
By ToI Staff
Orangutan Soga cuddles newborn Cahaya at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo. (Yaron Cassuto Magen)
April 30, 2026, 12:28 am
First orangutan born at Jerusalem Biblical Zoo
Cayaha, a name that means ‘light’ in Indonesian, born as part of European zoo breeding program, as critically endangered wild populations continue to dwindle
By Sue Surkes
A golden spiny mouse. (Mickey Samuni-Blank, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
April 27, 2026, 4:57 pm
Night light disrupts antibody production rhythms, may raise risk of death, Israeli study finds
Tel Aviv University research on mice, with implications for humans, finds artificial lighting from sources as common as streetlights disrupts mammalian immune system’s natural sense of time
By Sue Surkes
The new pygmy hippo at the Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin, northern Israel, on April 16, 2026 (Saguy Peretz)
April 16, 2026, 9:51 pm
Rare pygmy hippo arrives in Israel to launch breeding program
Female undergoing acclimatization at Hai Park in northern city of Kiryat Motzkin, which has built a special enclosure; male hippo set to arrive in September
By Sue Surkes
Haifa Educational Zoo (Louis Ariel Goldschmidt Zoo) has more than 100 types of animals, including primates, reptiles, birds, predators, and herbivores, October 23, 2024. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
June 27, 2025, 10:21 am
Days after end of Operation Rising Lion, Haifa zoo roars back into action
After repeatedly being forced to close due to conflicts since Oct. 7, 2023, the zoological garden welcomes visitors back – and its staff has a message about their mission
By Diana Bletter
An Indian crested porcupine. (Rufus46, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons)
February 9, 2024, 5:11 pm
Taibe man given 27 months behind bars for illegally hunting porcupines
Israel Nature and Parks Authority, which has long campaigned for stiffer sentences for animal abuse, welcomes judgment by Kfar Saba court, which also fined man NIS 25,000
By Sue Surkes
A snake being evacuated from Kibbutz Be'eri on the Gaza border, southern Israel, October 13, 2023. (Hadar Moran, for the Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
November 9, 2023, 11:40 am
Ministries, non-profits partner to rescue exotic captive animals from border towns
With IDF support, lemurs, meerkats, emus and a giant tortoise among wildlife evacuated from conflict areas near Gaza and Lebanon and transferred to safer facilities
By Sue Surkes
Mrs. Wolowitz, a 35-year-old northern rockhopper penguin, who was named after the character of Debbie Wolowitz from the TV sitcom "The Big Bang Theory," died on August 11, 2022, at the Edinburgh Zoo in Scotland. (The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland - RZSS)
August 14, 2022, 2:44 pm
Mrs. Wolowitz, penguin named for ‘Big Bang’ mom, dies in Scotland zoo
Devoted to her one offspring, she was thought to be oldest of her kind in the world, as well as the ‘sassiest penguin in the colony’; she died after a fox broke into her enclosure
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of Ruti the hyena, who was run over and killed outside of the central city of Modiin on July 16, 2020. (Effie Cohen, a volunteer with the Israel Nature and Parks authority)
July 17, 2022, 2:14 pm
Ruti the celebrity hyena run over and killed near Modiin
The animal, who aroused fiery support and opposition from residents, returned twice after rangers moved her far away; fed from trash after buildings replaced natural habitat
By Sue Surkes
A fox pictured with its head stuck in a mayonnaise container. (Nir Hershkovitz, Israel Nature and Parks Authority)
July 8, 2021, 2:33 pm
Fox rescued after getting head stuck in mayo container
Photo issued by Israel Nature and Parks Authority is latest in string of images of wild animals endangered by waste. ‘Throw your trash into bins,’ INPA implores
By Sue Surkes
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