Israel’s Virus Surveillance Tool Tests Its Democratic Norms
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — In the early days of the pandemic, a panicked Israel began using a mass surveillance tool on its civilians, tracking people’s cellphones in hopes of stoppin...
Israel Reaches 1 Million Mark In Vaccinations
JERUSALEM — Israel says it has vaccinated 1 million people against COVID-19, more than a tenth of its population, as it rolls out one of the world’s earliest and most rapid inocula...
CDC Vaccine Policy is Killing 500 Extra People a Day According to Statisticians
By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5tjt.com
The current state of COVID-19 in America is that it is killing 3000 people every day. What follows is an analysis of the policy that has been...
Wisconsin Hospital Worker Arrested For Intentionally Spoiling Vaccine Doses
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Authorities arrested a suburban Milwaukee pharmacist Thursday suspected of deliberately ruining hundreds of doses of coronavirus vaccine by removing it from re...
Sen. Perdue Quarantines For Virus Exposure Before GA Runoff
SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Republican Sen. David Perdue was forced into quarantine Thursday in the home stretch of Georgia's high-stakes Senate runoffs, disclosing just five days before ...
Israel Has Vaccinated Over 10 Times More Of Its Population Than The US
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel has vaccinated about 8% of its population against COVID-19, while the United States has vaccinated less than 1%, according to data reported by the two nati...
Biden Inauguration To Feature Memorial For COVID Victims
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is planning a lighting ceremony at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to honor those killed by the coronavirus the day before he is sw...
New York Makes Exception To Allow Fans At Bills Playoff Game
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York is making an exception to its restrictions on large gatherings to allow about 6,700 fans to attend a Buffalo Bills home playoff game in January as long...
Ethiopian Gardener At Caesarea Golf Course Wins Israel’s Golf Championship
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For 27 years, Asher Isso, an Ethiopian immigrant who arrived in Israel in 1991, has tended faithfully to the golf course greens in Caesarea in order to ensure...
Bomb-sniffing Dogs? Check. Times Square Crowd? Not This Year
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police turned to familiar tactics ahead of Thursday's New Year's Eve celebrations, deploying bomb-sniffing dogs and sand-filled sanitation trucks inte...
Israeli Policeman Indicted On Two Charges Of Assault For Hitting 12-Year-Old Chareidi Boy
JERUSALEM (VINnews) —The Israeli State Attorney's department for internal investigations submitted an indictment against the commander of the Lev Habirah police station, Dep. Com. ...
California Has Nation’s 2nd Confirmed Case Of Virus Variant
CALIFORNIA (AP) — California on Wednesday announced the nation's second confirmed case of the new and apparently more contagious variant of the coronavirus, offering a strong indic...
UK Is First To Authorize Easy-To-Handle AstraZeneca Vaccine
LONDON (AP) — Britain became the first country to authorize AstraZeneca’s inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, gaining another weapon against the virus amid a re...
California Governor Offers Plans To Reopen In-Person Schools
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday encouraged schools to resume in-person education next year, starting with the youngest students, and promised $2...
Fiancee Of Settler Youth Killed In Police Ramming Humiliated During Police Interrogation
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A week after the tragic death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when a police car rammed into the car he was travelling in during a high-speed chase, the affai...
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai Enters National Politics, Forming New Center-Left Party
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Veteran Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who has long expressed his wish to enter national politics, has decided to launch a new center-left party to run in Israel's...
Louisiana Congressman-Elect Luke Letlow Dead From COVID-19
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Luke Letlow, Louisiana's incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being swor...
First Reported US Case Of COVID-19 Variant Found In Colorado
DENVER (AP) — The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that's been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday.
Th...
Biden Criticizes Pace Of Vaccine Rollout, Vows To Accelerate
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get wor...
Millions Of Shekels Transferred By German Government Do Not Reach Holocaust Survivors
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Ynet investigation discovered that tens of millions of shekels transferred by the German government and earmarked for Holocaust survivors did not in fact re...