{"id":702,"date":"2010-08-09T04:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theequinest.com\/breeds\/?p=702"},"modified":"2025-10-29T00:02:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T00:02:43","slug":"israeli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/israeli","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Horse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Intro<\/h3>\n<p>The Israeli Horse is a combination of a variety of breeds, intermingled with a varying amount of <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> strains. However there are not centralized breeding practices in the country, so limited records have been kept.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Origins<\/h3>\n<p>The horse first came to Israel a very long time ago and was probably the ancestor of the <a href=\"\/breeds\/arabian-horse\">Arabian<\/a> of today. During the centuries Israel has been a place of many wars and considering horses were the war tanks of time past, the animals native to the area were influenced by a large variety of bloodlines. <\/p>\n<p>More recently, during WWI the Australian cavalry stayed in Palestine with their Whaler mounts, which have also had an evident influence on the Israeli horse. As well as the blood of <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">English Thoroughbreds<\/a> and heavier hunter types kept by British army officers. <\/p>\n<p>After Israel&#8217;s independence, horses from many different breeds of Europe and the US were imported for agricultural purposes. Unfortunately these crosses were not properly recorded, nor maintained, so it&#8217;s difficult to say what contributions each breed made to the Israeli breed. Since 1968 the main bloodline used to improve the breed is that of the <a href=\"\/breeds\/english-thoroughbred\">Thoroughbreds<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Because of the amount of random cross breeding, the Israeli breed doesn&#8217;t have a set conformation type. However, there are some characteristics that seem to be fairly uniform within the breed. <\/p>\n<h3>Features<\/h3>\n<p>Average height 14.1 &#8211; 15.1 hands<\/p>\n<h3>Physique<\/h3>\n<p>Head is relatively long<br \/>\nChest is narrow<br \/>\nBack is short<br \/>\nFeet are good and sound<\/p>\n<h3>Traditional Colors<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"\/colors\/base\/chestnut\">chestnut<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/greying\">grey<\/a> | <a href=\"\/colors\/modifiers\/bay\">bay<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Temperament<\/h3>\n<p>Kind and easy to handle <\/p>\n<h3>Use<\/h3>\n<p>Racing<br \/>\nRiding horse<br \/>\nTransportation<\/p>\n<h3>More Images<\/h3>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/israeli-horse-2.webp\" alt=\"Israeli Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/israeli-horse-3.webp\" alt=\"Israeli Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two\">\n<div class=\"grid-two-one\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/israeli-horse-4.webp\" alt=\"Israeli Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid-two-two\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/israeli-horse-5.webp\" alt=\"Israeli Horse\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Video<\/h3>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5qs0cIoLPwE?si=Mv6tybUYand9fKvr\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"flex-video widescreen\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HBysEFMqOYs?si=KgiC8eiWO_DRV1y5\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intro The Israeli Horse is a combination of a variety of breeds, intermingled with a varying amount of Arabian strains. However there are not centralized breeding practices in the country, so limited records have been kept.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[5,11,15],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-israel","tag-bay","tag-chestnut","tag-grey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10212,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions\/10212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theequinest.com\/breeds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}