Israel Cat Lover’s Society was founded in 1966 with the aim of helping the streetcat population of Haifa and Northern Israel. The society’s main aims and activities include an on-going program of subsidized spaying/neutering of stray cats with the aim of controlling the expansion of the cat population, rescue and treatment of cats in distress, sheltering and treating abandoned, abused, injured, or sick kittens and cats, finding permanent homes for homeless cats and kittens, preventing poisonings and mass exterminations, educational and informative lectures by vets and volunteers to adults and to students in schools and institutes of higher education, assistance to needy populations in operating feeding stations for cats and subsidizing medical treatments, and a hotline service.