Animal abuse

50-day prison sentence for man who kept monkey chained with iron links at home

Jerusalem Magistrate's Court also imposed 10,000-shekel fine on defendant, who kept green monkey and chameleon in his yard without permit.

The defendant kept a grivet monkey inside a cage in his yard for at least a month.
A man performs the ancient Jewish ritual of kaparot

Six Israeli cities ban live chickens for Yom Kippur kapparot, animal rights org. urges more to join

At an animal shelter, teenage volunteers from the youth club care for and walk beagles from pharmaceutical laboratories that are awaiting adoption, in Yvre L Eveque, France, September 6, 2025.

Over 150 beagles rescued from testing at Wisconsin facility, marking over 2,000 released this year

Israeli security forces rescue a donkey from the back of a private vehicle on July 21, 2026.

WATCH: Donkey rescued from private vehicle at Jerusalem checkpoint


North Carolina bear marked with 'Trump 2020' sticker

A $5,000 reward was offered for any information on who placed a Trump campaign ad on a bear.

A bear

Animal rights activists demand release of injured turkeys from farm

Approximately 9 million turkeys are killed annually in the country out of approximately 630 million killed globally.

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Animal rights activists in Cologne deface city's Holocaust memorial

The protesters, seeking to protest against factory farming methods and draw public attention, painted the memorial with red dye to simulate blood.

A wandering Jew started his traumatic World War II journey in Cologne. A general view of the left bank of the Rhine in Cologne in 1993

Dogs found in illegal enclosure near Haifa, recused by police

The dogs were found neglected in substandard living conditions

A dog is seen eating food left for it by a volunteer at a landfill in Arad. Its body is covered in wounds from fights for scraps of food in the garbage-filled landfill.

Livestock shipments to Israel decrease by 16%

The state comptroller's report in May revealed that the environment on these shipments were, indeed, frightful, with severely unhygienic conditions.

livestock

Former IDF chief medical officer pro animal experimentation

Hundreds of controversial cases of animal experimentation in the IDF have recently been exposed by Ynet and may shed a light on the covert capabilities that the IDF is currently developing.

Soldiers in the IDF's Oketz unit hugging a dog during a break, photo taken by Topaz Luk from the IDF spokesperson's unit

Hundreds of abandoned dogs living in garbage-filled landfill in Arad

SPCA: "This level of neglect has gone on for many years. We should not have reached this point."

Dogs are seen eating food from volunteers in a landfill in Arad.

Tortoises held illegally released back to the wild after police operation

The police searched the culprit's house after a report was filed against the owners.

The turtles which were rescued from captivity

Pitbulls kept in unsanitary conditions found in Kiryat Arba

From preliminary questioning it is suspected that the two suspects have already sold several puppies, worth tens of thousands of shekels.

Cages which were used to hold pitbull dogs

25% increase in number of pets abandoned since the beginning of March

The coronavirus has brought with it the unfortunate side effect of many more pets being abandoned.

One of the eight dogs rescued by the Ministry of Agriculture’s Plant protection and Inspections Services