Germany Easing Restrictions On Travel From UK, Portugal
BERLIN (AP) — Germany is easing strict restrictions on travel from Britain, Portugal and some other countries that were imposed because of the rise of the more contagious delta vir...
Canada, US Are Easing Pandemic Border-Crossing Restrictions
TORONTO (AP) — Pandemic restrictions on travel between Canada and the U.S. began to loosen Monday for some Canadians, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said plans to totally reopen...
Johnson Says Restrictions To Ease, UK Must Live With Virus
LONDON (AP) — Britain plans to scrap laws requiring face masks and social distancing later this month, Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed Monday, even as he acknowledged that l...
Terror Widow Lost Wedding Ring In Judean Desert Spring, Palestinian Worker Retrieves It
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Yael Shevach lost her husband Raziel in a 2018 terror attack near her Samarian home of Havat Gilad. Shevach vowed to continue to raise her six children in an ...
Russia Faces Surge Of Virus Cases In Last Month
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia on Sunday reported more than 25,000 new cases of coronavirus infection, the largest number since January, as the country faces a sharp surge over the past mont...
People Along The US-Canadian Border Await Word Of Reopening
BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — In a normal, pre-COVID-19 summer, scores of pleasure boats are anchored in Lake Champlain off the Burlington waterfront by July 4, with most of them from Can...
Arab Leader To Jordanian Media: ‘At Present We Can’t Take Weapons For Jihad, We Adopt Civilian Jihad’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During one of the long filibusters organized by the opposition in an attempt to thwart government legislators this week, MK Orit Struk (Religious Zionism) dec...
No Lockdown Plans In Russia As Virus Deaths Hit New Record
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities reported a record-breaking 679 new coronavirus deaths on Friday, a fourth day in a row with the highest daily death toll in the pandemic.
No pl...
WHO: ‘Dangerous Period’ With Delta Variant
GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization says the world is in “a very dangerous period” of the COVID-19 pandemic, noting the more contagious delta variant is identif...
Jerusalem Parents Shocked After 19 Magnets Discovered In Baby’s Stomach
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last week a one-year-old baby was rushed to the Hadassah hospital on Mount Scopus in Jerusalem, suffering from high fever and shivering.
The pediatrician w...
When President Biden Heard Rivlin’s Aide Rivka Ravitz Is Mother Of 12, He Bowed Down To Her
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Jewish people sometimes take for granted the incredible sacrifice involved in the lives of Jewish career women who have large families. Many of these women are...
California Virus Cases Rising As Delta Variant Spreads
LOS ANGELES (AP) — California broadly reopened its economy barely two weeks ago and since then an especially contagious coronavirus variant has spread among the unvaccinated, a dev...
Senior IDF Officer Collapses And Dies During Training 3 Days After Becoming Nahal Brigade Commander
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A senior IDF officer collapsed and died Thursday during a fitness training session at an Israeli military base.
Col. Sharon Asman had just taken command of...
After Failing To Equate Islamophobia With Anti-Semitism, Black Equity Officer Is Fired
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an astonishing display of insensitivity regarding the unique phenomenon of anti-Semitism, the director of the worldwide professional organization for childr...
GOP Congressman Flouts Mask Rules On Airline Flight To Texas
WASHINGTON (AP) — A Texas congressman who has been an outspoken critic of COVID-19 mask mandates went without a mask for at least a portion of a commercial airline flight Tuesday e...
Israel Scrambles To Curb Jump In COVID Infections
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel, a world leader in coronavirus vaccinations, reported its highest daily infection rate in three months as it scrambles to contain the spread of the n...
Female Soldier Lightly Injured In Jordan Valley Stabbing Attack, Terrorist Apprehended
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A female soldier was lightly to moderately injured at a Jordan Valley outpost Wednesday morning and her weapon was stolen from her by a Palestinian terrorist,...
Four Yeshiva Students Arrested In Holland For Smuggling Khat, Placed In Separate Jails
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Many Israelis have been caught lately smuggling the khat plant around Europe and among them were quite a few chareidim. Kikar Hashabat reports that 4 yeshiva ...
CDC Director Walensky Weighs In On Wearing Masks
WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, says the CDC is leaving it up to local officials to set guidelines for mask-wearing ...
Rabbi Kanievski’s Personal Physician Calls On Children Above 12 To Vaccinate
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Dr. Meshulam Hart, the personal physician of Rabbi Chaim Kanievski, issued a letter Tuesday in which he called on children aged 12 and above to vaccinate agai...