Israel is set to become the first country in the world to ban the sale of clothing and other textiles made from fur.
The new anti-fur legislation will come into effect in six months: a historic decision for the rights and protection of animals. Another equally historic decision follows shortly after in the United Kingdom finally ratifies the status of animals as sentient beings.
Historic decision
Israel's Minister of Environmental Protection, Gila Gamliel, released a statement after passing the law establishing the ban. He goes something like this: “The fur industry causes the death of hundreds of millions of animals around the world. The signing of these new anti-fur regulations will make the Israeli fashion market more environmentally friendly and much kinder to animals.”
Fur ban: the key to the agreement in an intelligent mediation
Fur will still be permitted for scientific research, education, or religious or traditional purposes. A "formal" compromise solution, which in exchange for the use of very few items eliminated the sale of all the others.
Without the exemption for ritual and traditional clothing it was unlikely that this ban would have succeeded.
The Israeli fur ban will save the lives of millions of animals who suffer on fur farms or languish in cruel traps around the world.
10 days ago Estonia too has initiated such a process: in that case, however, the ban will start from 1 January 2026.
The message, loud and clear, is that furs are unethical, unnecessary, no longer current and can cause also health problems.
