Tel Aviv Zoo in Israel


Tel Aviv Zoo
Photo: Fritz Cohen (1913-1981), 1 September 1950, PD
Photo: Fritz Cohen (1913-1981), 1 September 1950, PD
Typezoo
Owner
Founded1938
Last elephant left1980
Closed down1981
Place Tel Aviv
Country Israel
Website Website
Directors: Yehuda Bar (director)
Key People
Veterinarians: Yigal Horowitz (veterinarian)
Elephant department
Head keepers
of elephants		 -: Guy Kfir
(elephant head-keeper)
-: Rafi Geron
(elephant head-keeper)
-: Yitzhak Franco
(elephant head-keeper)
Elephant keepers -: Johnny Sushiya (elephant keeper)
Record history
History of updates2025-02-17:
Latest document update2025-02-17 12:44:05
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Description

Tel Aviv Zoo, in Tel Aviv, Israel , was founded in 1938. The last elephant left in 1980. Tel Aviv Zoo closed down in 1981.


Comments / picturesThe Tel Aviv Zoo was a zoo founded in 1938 and located in central Tel Aviv, then part of Palestine and later part of Israel. The zoo closed in 1980 and the animals were moved to the Zoological Center of Tel Aviv-Ramat Gan. The Gan Ha'Ir shopping mall now occupies the zoo\'s site.

Tel Aviv Zoo in Israel IsraelZookeeper Johnny Sushiya at the old Tel Aviv Zoo with Bongo, forest elephant
ca. 1940's

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Tel Aviv Zoo, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=1556. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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