Twenty-five American legislators have appealed for the second time to the Israeli government to allow the country’s SPCA’s to import duty-free animal ambulances needed to pick up injured, sick and abandoned animals and transport them to veterinary care
The legislators acted following the rejection of their first appeal to the Finance Ministry at the time it was headed by Yitzhak Modai. The new appeal was delivered personally by Nina Natelson, director of CHAI, Concern for Helping Animals in Israel, which
Natelson was in Israel to speak at the awards ceremony of the first Humane Education Contest for school children sponsored by CHAI at (POB 3341, Alexandria, Va. 22302), which provides support for animal welfare work in
CHAI’s involvement with the animal ambulance issue was initiated after a truck to be used in this capacity was donated by an American dealer to the new SPCA in Ashkelon, said Natelson. The $20,000 import
The effort by the U.S. Senators and Representatives on behalf of Israel’s SPCA’s was spearheaded by Reps. Tom Lentos (D. Cal.) and Lawrence Smith (D. Fla.). They appealed to Eliahu Speiser, chairman of the Knesset Commerce Committee, to extend to the animal
After these appeals won Speiser’s support, he approached Modai with a proposal to amend the customs rules accordingly. The Finance Ministry rejected the appeal. Its letter, signed by Meir Shavit, Assistant Minister of Finance, stated that “exemption
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