Two tiny kittens — one the color of marmalade and the other the color of soot — sprawl across Tova Saul’s lap. A black-and-white cat watches from a windowsill.

An injured feline recuperates inside a large cage near the wall. Yet another snoozes on a chair, completely unconcerned with visitors.

“I’ll tell you about the kittens,” Saul says while the little orange fellow tries to climb up her shoulder and the grey one bats at her sleeve.

From her apartment in Jerusalem’s Jewish Quarter, she fields calls about injured cats, abandoned kittens, trapped animals and wildlife in distress. Over the years, she estimates she has helped well over 1,000 orphaned kittens and injured cats.

The work continues almost daily.

A few days before we spoke in her Old City apartment, Saul was preparing for a quiet evening at home when her phone rang around 9 p.m.

The caller told her that two kittens had been found abandoned in a garbage bin in Beitar Illit, a Haredi city southwest of Jerusalem.

So Saul got in her car and drove.

“I’ve been rescuing animals for about 40 years in Israel,” Saul says. “I have never in my life heard such screaming from kittens.”

Today, those........

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