1. See Zafrir Rinat, After Five Months of Suspense, the Hoopoe is Crowned Israel's State Bird, H'aaretz, http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/988403.html (accessed Feb. 24, 2009).

2. See Lev 11.

3. See e.g. The Judensau, “An early seventeenth-century version of a design engraved at the entrance to a bridge at Frankfort in the fifteenth century, which was in turn derived from an older and very popular medieval theme[.]” Trachtenberg, Joshua, The Devil and the Jews: The Medieval Conception of the Jew and Its Relation to Modern Antisemitism (Yale U. Press 1944)Google Scholar (quoting and describing the book's illustration on the first left page, showing a Jew riding backwards on a pig, giving a crucified Christian child's blood to the Devil).

4. Schorsch, Ismar, Chancellor's Parashah Commentary: Parashat Sh'mini 5755, http://www.jtsa.edu/PreBuilt/ParashahArchives/5755/shemini.shtml (Mar 25, 1995)Google Scholar.

5. Id.

6. Gershwin, George, Ira Gershwin & Dubose Heyward, Porgy and Bess (Gershwin Pub. Corp. 1935)Google Scholar (quoting the opera character's song lyrics).

7. See 5, 98-99.

8. See 5-6, 41, 97.

9. See 6-7, 83.

10. See 35.

11. See 83.

12. See 70-71 (explaining the establishment of an “Institute for Livestock Science Research” at Kibbutz Lahav).

13. 47; see also Appendix 1; cf. 55.

14. See 41, 44-45, 48.

15. 33.

16. 31.

17. The Supreme Court of Israel sits not only as the highest appellate court, but also in banc as a High Court of Justice with original jurisdiction. The High Court of Justice is used primarily in private actions against the State of Israel.

18. HC 7406/01 Solodkin v. Municipality of Carmiel; see 97-102.

19. 102.