Agriculture Ministry, Nature Authority, open probe into Hai Park in Kiryat Motzkin after social media post shows elephants apparently clinging to wall for shade

Jewish National Fund to provide land to expand forest home of sanctuary, allowing it to take in macaques left in cramped cages for years after Petah Tikva breeding farm shut down

It's time for others to 'stop calling us crazy,' says Yesh Atid's Yasmin Sacks-Friedman, also highlighting plight of street cats, and caged hens and pigs

Animal's owner says there was no sign saying 'forbidden to bring a horse in'; he and a second man are arrested

Rights group slams Agriculture Ministry for ignoring state comptroller call to import more chilled meat, reduce animal suffering at sea

At conference organized by animal welfare groups, MKs from seven parties and a candidate for an eighth call for an end to live shipments of cattle, caging of poultry

Arno Klarsfeld, an animal rights activist whose father was a well-known Nazi hunter, equates slaughter of lambs to murder of Jews by Nazis

Animals still need to be fed and cared for, sanctuaries tell Knesset Committee, which also hears that animal abuse cases get lost in labyrinth of bureaucracy

At Freedom Farm, a kid rescued from a ritual Passover slaughter mingles with pigs and hens so overfed for slaughter they cannot stand

Amended bill ends breeding of animals for the fur industry, bans the use of circus animals and increases supervision on animal shelters