Lapid Urges Youth To Get Vaccine As Active Cases in Israel Surges, Appoints Special Airport Commissioner
JERUSALEM — Israel’s new prime minister is urging the country’s youth to get vaccinated as coronavirus case numbers have crept up in recent days due to a localized outbreak of the ...
WATCH: IDF Rescue Team Arrive To Florida Disaster Site
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel elite IDF engineering team arrived this morning to Florida to help in recovery efforts following the collapse of a 12-story condo in Surfside, Florida on T...
Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor To Head Meron Commission Of Inquiry
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Miriam Naor will head the commission of inquiry established to investigate the tragedy in Meron in which 45 people lost the...
Family Receives Calls From Landline Buried In Rubble Of Surfside Tower
NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the three days which have passed since the collapse of the Champlain Towers South in Surfside, Miami, there have been a number of signs of life from the...
Israel Brings Back Mask Rules As Variant Spreads
JERUSALEM — Israel, a world leader in vaccinations, is once again requiring people to wear masks in indoor public spaces amid a coronavirus outbreak driven by the arrival of a new ...
Lilly To Seek FDA Approval For Potential Alzheimer’s Drug
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Eli Lilly is nearly ready to take another shot at getting approval for a possible Alzheimer’s drug.
The drugmaker said Thursday that it plans to submit its p...
CDC Extends Eviction Moratorium A Month, Says It’s Last Time
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Thursday extended the nationwide ban on evictions for a month to help millions of tenants unable to make rent payments during the coro...
Third Victim Of Karlin Bleacher Collapse Passes Away Five Weeks After Event
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 39-year-old Eliyahu Karpel is the third victim of the Karlin bleacher collapse which occurred on the eve of Shavuos, nearly six weeks ago. Karpel, who was fou...
Haaretz Publishes Anti-Chareidi Cartoon Regarding COVID-19 Spike: ‘We Need To Organize A Tish’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the coronavirus spike in Israel over the last few days, the Haaretz newspaper published a vitriolic anti-chareidi cartoon depicting chareidi MK...
Watch: Elephant Crashes Into Kitchen In Search Of Food
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A hungry elephant foraging for food crashed into a kitchen in Thailand in a vain search for food. The elephant can be seen in this clip vainly rolling its trun...
Israel Suffers Spike In COVID-19 Cases Of Delta Variant Particularly Among Schoolchildren
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is suffering a steep rise in cases of Covid-19 , particularly among schoolchildren, with the main affected areas being the towns of Binyamina and Modii...
Biden Pushes Shots For Young Adults As Variant Concern Grows
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. government is stepping up efforts to get younger Americans vaccinated for COVID-19 as concerns grow about the spread of a new variant that threatens to s...
Almost 900 Secret Service employees were infected with COVID
WASHINGTON (AP) — Roughly 900 U.S. Secret Service employees tested positive for the coronavirus, according to government records obtained by a government watchdog group.
Secret ...
Watchdog: Nursing Home Deaths Up 32% In 2020 Amid Pandemic
WASHINGTON (AP) — Deaths among Medicare patients in nursing homes soared by 32% last year, with two devastating spikes eight months apart, a government watchdog reported Tuesday in...
Biden Outlines Vaccine Plan, Set To Miss Global-Sharing Goal
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is expected to fall short of his commitment to shipping 80 million COVID-19 vaccine doses abroad by the end of June because of regulatory and ...
US Hitting Encouraging Milestones On Virus Deaths And Shots
NEW YORK (AP) - COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have dipped below 300 a day for the first time since the early days of the disaster in March 2020, while the drive to put shots in arms ...
Wary Of New Outbreak, Israel To Increase Covid Screening At Ben-Gurion Airport
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel will significantly increase COVID-19 screening at Ben-Gurion International Airport amid fears of the highly contagious Delta variant of the COVID-19 virus,...
Three Other Countries Request Vaccines From Israel After Palestinians Refuse To Accept Them
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After Palestinian leaders refused to accept the vaccines sent by Israel over the weekend, claiming that they were close to expiration date, three other countr...
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Don’t Buy Arab Produce, Meretz MK: Investigate Rabbi For ‘Racial Incitement’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tzfat Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu called Sunday not to purchase agricultural produce from Israeli Arabs in the aftermath of the violent riots in which a number...
Blood Shortage Forces New England Surgery Delay
BOSTON — Some New England hospitals are delaying or rescheduling surgeries because of a shortage of blood donations during the pandemic.
“We haven’t seen anything like this in a...