Cease Animal Experimentation at Weizmann Institute

To The Government of Israel, the Israel National Council for Animal Experimentation. The Board of Directors at The Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel:

We are aware of the 340,637 cases of animal experimentation that transpired in Israel in the year of 2007 and the increasing percentages of animals injured and abused within the frameworks of the industries you are affiliated with politically and financially;

We, the undersigned, from every corner of the globe and from every persuasion, from every walk of life and from every political side of the equation, hereby are unequivocally demanding in the name of all sentient beings, those walking on four legs, those that crawl, those that fly, those encaged, those imprisoned in cages, those who have never seen the light of day; those ripped from their mothers at birth, those who have endured untold agony at the hands of those entrusted with their well-being but who have forfeited that undertaking with devised methodologies in which to induce disease, impair senses, push the pain of the imprisoned creature to its furthest limit in stances of greed, power and ignorance; those crippled, those tortured, those injected, cut, pierced, flogged, infected, torn, burned, radiated and blinded -

That you, The Weizmann Institute, (by all names in which you conduct your experimentations, in all places), cease to conduct your acts of barbarism and cruelty to animals in the name of *science* immediately.

And that you, the Government of Israel, (in all of the ministries, by all names you have conceived for yourselves, by all ministers and Knesset members chosen to formulate and uphold the laws in Israel), completely and finally implement and UPHOLD the Law Against Cruelty To Animals in Israel - not by initiating by-laws and annotations to the Laws but to view them as viable and critical in establishing a sane, balanced and compassionate society, where violence, cruelty and bloodshed do not enter the equation called the Nation of Israel;

And that in congruence to the law of reciprocity - also known in Physics - the Law of Cause and Effect, you stop infliction destruction as your mode of operation and replace it with a new mode of being human. As it was said by Rabbi Hillel - "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow: this is the whole Law; the rest is the explanation; go and learn" (Shab. 31a) - as we do to others so it is done to us;

And because we as a people, as a nation and a world, refuse to continue to be faced with more violence, wars and acts of terrorism; crime, delinquency, disease and unrest all of which have become our daily reality stemming from a core indifference to the suffering of others, whether they be of human or animal, ask that you take this new opportunity to see this vital issue as being central to the fabric of our essence, our humanity and that the animals being savaged in the name of *science* cannot speak out against the crimes perpetuated against them daily in the Land of Israel and so, we the people must;

And in this we are demanding that you completely and finally CEASE to inflict bodily and emotional pain on these animals that you have imprisoned in your laboratories in Rehovot and at other locations around Israel, under other names and under various ownerships;

That you completely and finally CEASE to use any living creature in experimentation;

That you completely and finally CEASE to cage, contain, imprison any living animal in cages in your laboratories and that you release these animals immediately to safe sanctuaries both in Israel and overseas that will help heal them from the wounds you have inflicted upon them, or in the cases that their wounds are irreversible that you place them in the care of compassionate parties that will help them transition into death as free creatures as they were intended;

That you completely and finally CEASE to engage in experimentation that endangers all living beings and the environment, and that you begin helping to re balance the air, water and earth that your experimentations have polluted with toxins and that your institutes and industry begin to work in tandem with the Laws of Nature, sustaining, enlivening and producing life-enhancing products that do no harm to any one or thing on this planet.

And in this, all of this, we place our signatures, the citizens of Israel and from every corner of this globe,