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June 5, 2025

A Black Jackal Spotted in the Negev

The real biblical “fox.”

According to Natan Slifkin, the biblical word shu’al, usually rendered fox, in fact refers to the jackal, a species that still roams the Negev desert and the Golan Heights. An Israeli teenager recently captured a rare black-coated specimen of this animal, which typically has a golden coat, with his camera. Ilana Curiel reports:

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