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All Dogs Are Bad and Their Owners Accursed, Israeli City’s Rabbis Rule

'A serious phenomenon has spread in our city Elad, in which young boys and children walk around publicly with dogs. This is strictly forbidden'

More than a dozen Israeli rabbis issued edict declaring all dogs bad and warning residents that keeping them will make them accursed.

The edict, dated June 14, contains the signatures of all the Sephardic rabbis in Elad, a city of about 46,000 residents where most of the population is ultra-Orthodox. The city’s chief rabbi, Mordechai Malka, also signed the edict

serious phenomenon in which young boys and children walk around publicly with dogs. This is strictly forbidden. 

As explained in the Talmud and by the Rambam, anyone raising a dog is accursed” the anti-canine edict states.

rabbi Avraham Yosef quoted writing: “I do not find any grounds for permitting any dog whatsoever in any manner.”

“bad dog” means “any dog barks on whomever it does not know and because of its bark it is a bad dog even if does not bite,” the edict also states. 

The Talmud and the 12th-century sage Maimonides, or the Rambam, frequently regard dogs as dangerous and unclean.