Is it true that in Israel, due to the requirements of the law, pigs are grown on special platforms?

According to many sources, due to the legislative ban on the breeding of pigs on Israeli land, local farmers do this on special platforms, thereby witty restrictions. We checked if it was true.

This is what information can be read on the Russian -speaking portal Immigrant.tode: “It is written in the Torah that it is impossible to grow pigs, to breed pigs on the Holy Land. And in Israel, secular, say, laws with Judaism are very closely related. But those who grow pigs managed to get around this law and grow pigs on pallets. That is, the pig does not apply to the Holy Land, and in this way you can grow pork in Israel. ”

Such information also appeared in the newspaper "Mirror of the week", on the news site Worldrusnews.ru, V "Live magazine" Twitter and on different ones forums. In the encyclopedia "Lurcomorye" It is claimed that these plates are a real oak parquet. Famous culturologist glory of Zizhek in one of his books It even gives a specific height: “... in order to break the order prohibiting the pigs on the Holy Land of Israel, they are still diluted at a height of three feet above sea level ... So they manage to break the spirit of the order, adhering to its letters.”

The restriction on eating meat of some animals really goes back to the Torah (Pentateuch). In it It is said (Levit 11: 3-4) that God told Aaron and Moses: “Tell the Sons of Israel: here are animals that you can eat from the whole cattle on earth: all cattle that have bifurcated hooves and a deep incision on the hooves and which chews chewing gum, eat.” Thus, two criteria for the kosher (permissiveness) of the animal are established: it should be simultaneously paired and gum. The pig corresponds only to the first of these two signs, which is said there. At the same time, you can pay attention to the words “on Earth”, which for someone, indeed, could serve as a loophole, albeit not entirely correct.  

Archaeological finds They say The fact that, before the conquest of the Canaanan Israeli, pork was a popular food product in these parts, but some neighbors (the Egyptians, the Sidonians, and later Arabs) did not eat it.

The idea of ​​this by the artsical disco as an unclean animal was rooted in the Talmudic era, when instead of the word “pig” often used euphemism “Davar Aher” (literally “another thing”), that is, something better not to be called their name. Pig It appears In the Talmud as a symbol of all the most repulsive: "A pig is a walking cloak."

What happened to this tradition in the XX century? Peter Lyukimson in his book "Pork wars on the Holy Land" He writes: “Thunder struck in 1923, when a group of Jewish youth from Galicia, belonging to the pro-communist Zionist organization Ha-shomer Ha-tsair (“ Young Guard ”) decided to create Mizra Kibbutz in the Isreel Valley. And as one of the main directions of their activities, the kibbutzniki decided to make the breeding of pigs, thus throwing an open challenge to both religious Jews and Muslim Arabs, convinced that the leg of this “unclean” animal should not defile the Holy Land. The grandiose scandal erupted, but the members of the Ha-shomer Ha-tsair decided to firmly insist on their own, promising, however, as a compromise that they would breed pigs so that their legs are actually not hiding to the ground. And this promise, by the way, was restrained: for many decades, the pigs in the kibbutz of Mizra have been grown on boardwalks raised above the ground to a height of 20 cm. ”

That is, we are talking about breeding pigs above the ground in one specific kibbutz (agricultural commune). As evidenced Sources, a full -fledged pork factory appeared in the kibbutz of Mizra much later than 1923, only in 1957. AND It lasted half a century, until in 2010 the property of the plant was not sold out. However, there is one nuance: back in the 1960s, the inhabitants of Kibbutz Transferred their production on lands in the Nazareth region, belonging to Christians and Muslims. For what? To answer this question, let's finally look at Israeli Law on the prohibition of growing pigs, which was adopted on July 23, 1962 and is valid with certain amendments to this day:

1. It is forbidden to grow, maintain or clog pigs.

2. The provisions of paragraph 1 do not apply:
     a) on settlements listed in the appendix.
     b) on the cultivation, maintenance and clogging of pigs in research institutions and public zoos.

The application lists nine settlements with a significant share of the non -Jewish population. Among them there is no kibbutz Mizra, but there is a neighboring Nazareth, which was mentioned above. Thus, the law did not put any restrictions on the breeding of pigs “on Earth” literally. Moreover, he allowed this lesson in a number of communities, where the share of the professing Judaism was relatively small. In other words, even if somewhere in Israel, pigs were grown on platforms, the reason for this was not in the legislative plane.

For several years, until 1962, the role of this law was played by a similar Municipal act. And pork has become an additional restriction for Israeli consumers Law on meat 1994, which prohibited the import of non -cooks in the country. However, later, exceptions were made in it for sausages, fat and a number of other products. And only in 2019 they put on them limitation In the form of need to have a certificate of kosher.

Does the foregoing mean that after the elimination of the pig farm belonging to the kibbutz Mizra, the growing pigs in Israel stopped? Not at all. Back in 2005, when the pig farm existed in the country There was 18 such farms. In 2012, there were already 26, A study, conducted by local specialists, reported about six -digit annual scores of the Pig Frost in Israel:

Finally, from the row programs We see about the breeding of pigs in Israel that at least part of the animals do not live on some special platforms. From all this, we can conclude that information about the breeding of pigs on special platforms is based at best on one or more historical local examples. These examples, if they took place, could be related to attempts to adapt to unwritten historical canons The purity of meat and had nothing to do with legislative acts. At the same time, it should be noted that many international resources Recommend To arrange a floor in a room for pigs at an altitude of 60 cm from the ground, that is, in the general case, the existence of such premises does not say anything about religious norms.

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