Israel has removed a key legal obstacle to one of the country's most unusual security proposals: National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir's plan to surround a prison holding Palestinian detainees with crocodile-filled waterways.
Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman signed a decree on Wednesday stripping the Nile crocodile of the protected status that confined the reptiles to licensed zoos, reclassifying them as 'tended wild animals' that security bodies may keep under specified conditions.
