Griffon vultures don't hunt living animals. They are clean-up birds - they find animals that have already died and eat them. This is really important: by eating dead animals fast, they stop diseases spreading and keep the land healthy. Scientists call them nature's recyclers.
Their eyesight is incredible. From half a kilometre up in the air, a vulture can spot a dead rabbit on the hillside. They glide for hours without flapping their wings, just riding the warm air rising off the hot rocks. Some vultures barely flap once in a whole afternoon.
They nest on big rocky cliffs in the Galilee and Carmel hills, in colonies with other vultures. A pair has only one chick a year. Both parents take turns sitting on the egg, and later flying off to bring food back.
Israel takes care of them carefully. Scientists at places like the Hai-Bar reserve raise vulture chicks and release them into the wild. There are now hundreds of griffons soaring over the country - one of the best places in the Middle East to see them.