This art shelter is situated in “Zoo Havaya” in Kibbutz Magen. (“Zoo havaya” is a pun – “זו” [zu or zoo] sounds like zoo, but doesn’t mean zoo (means “it” or “this”), so zoo havaya means “it’s an experience” and as a pun can be translated also as “experience zoo”) This originally began as a small children’s zoo, for the children of the kibbutz, to teach them about responsibility and caring for animals. The kibbutz was privatized in 2001 and the petting zoo was transformed into “Zoo Havaya”, with an animal rescue station and many different types of animals, and is now run as a commercial enterprise, bringing children from all around the region and the country.
Adapted from http://www.wzd.cz/zoo/AS/IL/il_hahotrim.htm
