Ady Gil is an Israeli animal rights activist living in Hollywood, California, United States of America.
Gil donated millions to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to refurbish a ship for use for its anti-whaling campaigns.
The vessel, the former Earthrace, was renamed Ady Gil, and sank 290 km from Antarctica after a collision incident with the Japanese whaling ship Shonan Maru No 2.
[3] The loss of the ship has been the subject of litigation between Gil and Paul Watson founder and director of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.
[4] In December 2014, Gil paid US$2 million to rescue 1300 monkeys from a facility that bred them so that they would not be exported to the United States for being subjected to experiments that maimed and killed them.