Government removes legal protections for Nile crocodiles as Ben Gvir pushes for detention compound ringed by reptiles

Environment Minister Idit Silman classifies the Nile crocodile as a specially managed wild animal to enable its use around security prisons, despite objections from legal advisers…

The environmental protection minister changed the crocodile’s legal status to facilitate National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s proposed “crocodile prison.”