In its first ever debate on issue, committee told of dreadful breeding conditions, lack of data and enforcement; thousands of abandoned animals put to sleep

Ministry fails to investigate problems, punishes neither ship owners nor importers who repeatedly break rules. More work needed to halt spread of diseases that can infect humans

Rights group Animals Now charges that key to improving livestock conditions is transferring responsibility from Agriculture Ministry to Environmental Protection Ministry

New video footage of cows who made it through the flames and were sent to Eilat draws fresh criticism of intense suffering endured during live shipping

Nearly 700,000 animals shipped from Australia and Europe for fattening and slaughter; Knesset bill to stop live transports halted by absence of functioning government

Alannah MacTiernan says she will fast-track regulations requiring pain relief for stock before de-horning, after secretly filmed material shows workers abusing animals

Secretly filmed footage portrays workers beating, kicking, electrocuting, standing on and shooting at animals for fun, denying them painkillers and vet visits to save money

Rights advocates call practice 'shocking and disturbing' after video emerges of workers unloading surviving animals with electric prodders

Onlookers in Jaffa say they first thought calf was a human being and rushed to move it to shore before realizing it was a long-dead animal

Environmental group says cow possibly thrown overboard from ship carrying live animals to Israel for slaughter