(JTA) — Israel declared as its national snake a species that is called Palestine viper in English and Latin. The species, whose names in Hebrew are Common Viper or Land of Israel Viper ...

How do you “become” a snake? How do you climb ... though many are not native to Israel. Some non-desert animals are holdovers from the old Beersheba Zoo, and some, like the hippos, come ...

The 1-year-old, named Imad Gadir from Shfaram in northern Israel, found the 35-centimetre-long snake in his room Thursday morning and was chewing on it when his mother found him, the Ynet news ...