Despite an interim court order blocking the transfer of crocodiles to Ketziot Prison, Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman on Tuesday instructed the Israel Nature and Parks Authority to establish the conditions for housing crocodiles around Israel Prison Service facilities as part of preparations for a pilot program.

While the government is still required to respond to a petition filed by the Let the Animals Live organization, Silman is seeking to move forward with the initiative in the coming days before the trial begins.

Silman sent a letter to the Nature and Parks Authority saying: “We are moving forward with the project and implementing government policy. The reality in which thousands of new terrorists have entered the prison system since October 7, some of them highly dangerous terrorists, poses a major challenge for the Israel Prison Service, and incorporating crocodiles into the effort will certainly help.”

“I am not impressed by those shedding ‘crocodile tears’ who claim to care about the welfare of terrorists under the pretext of caring about the crocodiles,” Silman asserted.

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)