The role of veterinary services is to protect the public from dangers and damages originating from animals or animal products (foods). Maintaining public health means supervising the health and welfare of animals, supervising the production of food, transporting food, and ensuring the safety of food during transport and storage in businesses. Activities include:

  • Preventing the entrance of unsupervised/poor quality food to the city which could harm public health.

  • Inspection of businesses engaged in the production or sale of food from animals: catering, butchers, restaurants, guest houses.

  • Veterinary supervision of places where animals are kept and raised: farm animals, riding farms, petting zoos, exhibitions, etc.

  • Law enforcement to regulate the supervision of dogs: prevention of rabies, rabies vaccinations, treatment of stray animals (wild and owned), treatment of injured abandoned animals, treatment of animal nuisances. Issuance of licenses for keeping dogs in the Efrat, treatment of dogs who bite that pose a danger to health and public safety and more.

The activity of the veterinary service is written in the state laws and bylaws for Efrat. The veterinary service is professionally subordinate to veterinary services in the Ministry of Agriculture, and is in working relations and collaborations with the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Health, the Nature and Parks Authority, the Ministry of the Environment and other relevant public bodies.