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Hillel Fendel: Buffalo are currently raised in Moshav Bitzaron, just east of Ashdod, having been brought over from Italy. Zivotofsky says that these buffalo are the same as those that used to live here in Israel. "The Italian Jewish community still uses these animals today for their milk and meat," he said.
Hillel Fendel: Israel's Chief Rabbi has declared the water buffalo a kosher animal.
Ari Z. Zivotofsky: The Asiatic water buffalo (Bubalus arnee or Bubalus bubalis) is native to India and was probably not introduced to western Asia, i.e. the biblical lands, until shortly before the Common Era, near the very end of the biblical period.
"With his Horns he shall gore Peoples together to ends of Earth" (Deuteronomy 33:17 Multilingual).
