JERUSALEM (JTA) – Israel will ban the buying and selling of furs, a government minister said.
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Calling the use of animal skin and fur for clothing “immoral,” Gila Gamliel, Israel’s environmental protection minister, said the country would move to ban the trade, according to a report Monday from the BBC.
The move would make Israel the first country to ban the sale of all fur. Only a handful of cities in the United States and Sao Paolo, Brazil, currently have such a policy in place, according to the BBC.
The new policy would allow exceptions for “scientific research, education or for instruction and for religious purposes or tradition.” That would likely allow haredi Orthodox men to continue to buy shtreimels, the fur hats traditionally worn on Shabbat and holidays.
Gamliel is currently in the news for having contracted COVID-19 and breaking Israel’s lockdown to pray in a synagogue on Yom Kippur more than 100 miles from her home.
The announcement drew praise from Israeli animal rights groups.
“The minister’s important decision will save countless animals,” the group Animals Now said in a statement, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Israeli lawmakers have debated proposals to ban fur for a decade.
the man-made morality of the godless left is abhorrent
More silly posturing. There is nothing immoral about using fur to cover oneself, any more than using leather. Does the minister wear leather shoes and belts?
True, trapping animals for fur can be very cruel. But acc. to Wikipedia, “Today, 80 percent of the fur clothing industry’s pelts come from animals raised on farms. The rest is from animals caught in the wild.”
So if you want, ban selling fur from trapped animals, but allow it from farmed animals.
Aside from streimlach I don’t think there’s much demand for furs in Israel as there is in colder countries.
O.k.so we can all start wearing plastic man made shoes and no leather bags….etc etc
If we can’t wear them, why can we eat them??
Gotta go all the way and legislate veganism!
she travel more than 100 miles from her home!!