Israeli cats

Ancient DNA upends long-held story of cat domestication

New DNA studies show domestic cats originated in North Africa and spread later than believed, while ancient China lived alongside a different wild feline long before housecats arrived.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Blink, but slowly: Study reveals the secret to better communication with your cat.
CATS TREATED successfully with Fenlips cream after FHV-1 infection.

Israeli scientists discover feline herpes can be treated with human coldsore medication

Treatment of FHV-1 ocular disease is challenging; until now, it has been treated less successfully with a pill, but it had to be forced on cats, and they didn’t like it.

|ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Blink, but slowly: Study reveals the secret to better communication with your cat.

Blessing or a curse? Israelis divided on Jewish state’s abundance of felines - study

While cats are beloved pets by many, 77% of those interviewed agreed that cat numbers needed to be reduced.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
A cat walks along the sidewalk on a street on Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement and the holiest day in the Jewish calendar in Tel Aviv, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, in Tel Aviv, Israel October 11, 2024.

Suspected mass poisoning of cats in Tel Aviv, surrounding cities

The bodies of six cats were also discovered in Kiryat Ono.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Peeling the prickly Sabras

A veteran immigrant takes a second amusing look at what makes Israelis tick.

JANUARY 27, 2016ByLIAT COLLINS
The 'Ars' and the ‘freha’ in their natural habitat

This week in Jerusalem 432166

Peggy Cidor’s round-up of city affairs.

NOVEMBER 5, 2015ByPEGGY CIDOR
Jerusalem street cats: A dubious future, but hopefully fewer cans

Claws are out: Don't deport my kitty, say MKs' in response to proposal to deport Israel's strays

Agriculture Minister seeking alternative options to spaying and neutering program,

NOVEMBER 2, 2015BySHARON UDASIN
Sad cat

‘Like cats and dogs’

"Cats have no social conscience. As for dogs – wouldn’t getting them to bark and getting them to stop barking be mutually exclusive and confuse them thoroughly?"

AUGUST 16, 2015ByPHILIP GOLD
A dog and a cat

The cat, the Rav-Kav and Jewish values

"Fifteen seconds later, she was bounding across the rooftops like Schwarzenegger in his pre-political prime."

JULY 8, 2015ByPHILIP GOLD
A Cat

WATCH: Missiles are no match for Schnitzel the Cat

In security footage, cat escapes unscathed after missile shrapnel falls directly in his tree.

JULY 13, 2014ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Cats [illustrative].