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Israel’s crocodile conundrum: ‘You can’t eat ’em, you can’t kill ’em’

Hundreds of massive crocodiles are stranded in an abandoned Jordan Valley farm because the entrepreneur who bought them for their skin lost his business when Israel passed a law in 2012 that prohibited the sale of crocodiles for meat, or use of their skin commercially.

By The Associated Press

 

An Israeli businessman appears to have bitten off more than he can chew with plans for a crocodile farm in a West Bank settlement.

Hundreds of crocodiles have been stranded at the farm in a remote spot in the Jordan Valley—left behind by a pair of failed business ventures.The crocodiles were brought to the settlement of Petzael in the mid-1990s as a tourist attraction. Continue Reading »