Hunting in israel

Passover haggadahs have long included pictures of rabbit hunts. This year shows us why

The images, which are varied in style and can be found in editions dating back to medieval and early-modern Germany, often present hunters and dogs chasing rabbits.

Hare-hunting as seen in the Prague Haggadah is reflects the themes of Passover and is tied to a ritual reordering for Saturday night seders.
 A young boar walks through Las Planas neighborhood in the Collserola Natural Park in Barcelona, Spain, August 11, 2022.

Haifa's wild pig problem might be a thing of the past, thanks to a new US study

 A fox going hunting in Israel.

WATCH: Israeli fox hunts tiny shrew in rare footage

A kite by Kibbutz Samar, where two undulating walls are leading towards the round head. An Early Bronze Age grave (tumulus) was later built on top of the kite, and we found in it human and cattle bones, tiny beads and a stele.

Mystery of structures resembling kites from prehistoric times finally cracked


Evidence of prehistoric hunting discovered by Oxford archaeologists in Arabian desert - study

The discovery has "important implications in terms of the paleoenvironment of the region, faunal dispersals and human cultural connections." 

Amir Balaban's Playmates, Mountain Gazelle, The Checkpoint herd, Jerusalem

Bird flu: Tamar Zandberg ends Israel's hunting season amid outbreak

"The move will prevent the continued spread of avian flu, while keeping hunters safe from the dangerous and contagious disease.”

MK Tamar Zandberg, had of the Meretz party at a rally in Tel Aviv, May 25, 2019

Bird flu: Israel mulls ending hunting season to avoid human transmission

Israel's hunting season kicks off every year in September and lasts four months, with hunters typically hunting birds. 

 Cranes gather during the migration season on a foggy morning at Hula Nature Reserve, in northern Israel

Israel to ban hunting of quail, place 3-year ban on hunting turtle doves

A move to ban the hunting of quail and turtle doves was announced by Environmental Protection Minister Tamar Zandberg, and could go into effect on August 11.

A hunter surveys the landscape

Police arrest man suspected of dog abuse in northern Israel

Police also found porcupine quills and hunting tools in the vehicle.

An abused dog found in the trunk of a vehicle belonging to a man suspected of hunting porcupines illegally.

Five arrested for illegally abusing and hunting a porcupine

When Border Patrol officers and volunteers searched the suspicious backpack in the backseat of their car, they found the lifeless porcupine.

The porcupine, taken from the backpack, November 14, 2020.

New campaign seeks to ban wildlife hunting in Israel

Poachers often hunt endangered and protected animals like gazelles and porcupines, where their meat is sold illegally for high prices.

A hunter surveys the landscape

Porcupines poached for meat in northern Israel due to superstitions

The beliefs tied to porcupines are the result of the noises the animal makes, "that resemble a baby's cry," Ling said.

Indian crested porcupine

Will the Israeli Hyrax be labeled as a pest?

The Ministry of Environmental Protection propose the Israeli Hyrax be given the legal status of a pest.

The little rock hyrax abounds in Israel.

Illegal hunters snared by police in wide-scale operation

An unusually cruel ring of illegal hunters exploited and killed wild animals in northern Israel, until a group of 200 police officers put an end to the crime.

Hooks used for illgeal hunting in north Israel

Grumpy old man: Like lipstick on a pig

Public relations can go only so far when your problem is much worse than a dead beast in Zimbabwe.

Protesters call attention to the alleged poaching of Cecil the lion, in the parking lot of Dr. Walter Palmer's River Bluff Dental Clinic on July 29, 2015 in Bloomington, Minnesota.