Animal abuse

Dog burnt to death in Lag Ba'omer bonfire, police arrest two on suspicion of animal cruelty

Two people employed at a luxury hotel operating in the area were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the act. As far as is known, one of them allegedly carried out the act while the other filmed.

People build bonfires on Lag Ba'omer on May 4, 2026.
Stray dogs in Israel

Animal rights organization urges Nature and Parks Authority to cease shooting of stray dogs

Palestinians inspect the scene of an attack on a Palestinian family by extremist settlers, during which several sheep were killed, in the town of As-Samu, south of Hebron, December 23, 2025.

Police arrest five in connection with attacking, killing Palestinian shepherd’s sheep

Turkish authorities rescued a 35-day-old African lion cub after it was trafficked into Istanbul, the Agricultural and Forestry Ministry confirmed last week.

Newborn African lion cub rescued from Istanbul smugglers


Animal-rights NGO persuades El Al to stop shipping hunting trophies

LA resident Aaron Raby will no longer be able to use El Al to fly his hunting trophies to the US after the airline joined 40 other carriers in similar ban

Elephant being killed by a hunter on a trip in South Africa, El Al decided to join other airlines and not fly hunting trophies. The US leads the world with 650,000 hunting trophies flown to it every year.

WHO: Live animal exports could spread 'ghastly disease,' must stop

"I think it's getting to a stage where it can't be safe and it's not nice you see the suffering of animals."

A calf in a live animal transport

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