AP Exclusive: CDC Guidance More Restrictive Than White House
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Advice from the top U.S. disease control experts on how to safely reopen businesses and institutions during the coronavirus pandemic was more detailed and ...
Security Guard Lightly Injured In Sheba Medical Center Stabbing, Suspect Neutralized
RAMAT GAN (VINnews) — A suspect carrying a knife attempted to stab a security guard at the entrance to the Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer. The guard, the hospital's deputy se...
Despite Virus, Pompeo In Israel To Talk West Bank Annexation
JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Wednesday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to discuss Israel's plans to annex parts of the West Bank, as Israeli troo...
Wear A Mask? Even With 20,000 Dead, Some New Yorkers Don’t
NEW YORK (AP) — Eric Leventhal felt a sneeze coming and panicked.
The Brooklynite left his cloth face mask at home for a morning run in a park last week. Walking home, he turned...
Virus Consipracy-Theory Video Shows Challenges For Big Tech
CHICAGO (AP) — One by one, tech companies across Silicon Valley scrambled to take down a slickly produced video of a discredited researcher peddling a variety of conspiracy theorie...
Florida Synagogue Sanctions Members For Participating In COVID-19 Minyan
DEERFIELD BEACH (VINnews) — As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to drag on, some communities are demonstrating that they will not stand for any violations of social distancing guide...
Counterfeit Masks Reaching Frontline Health Workers In US
WASHINGTON (AP) — On a day when COVID-19 cases soared, healthcare supplies were scarce and an anguished doctor warned he was being sent to war without bullets, a cargo plane landed...
Elon Musk Becomes Champion Of Defying Virus Stay-home Orders
FREMONT, CA (AP) - Tesla CEO Elon Musk has emerged as a champion of defying stay-home orders intended to stop the coronavirus from spreading, picking up support — as well as critic...
Watch: 200 Arrested As Worshipers Break Into Rashbi’s Tomb, Attack Police
MERON (VINnews) — Some 200 people were arrested after they broke into the tomb of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai Tuesday evening and refused to leave despite police calling on them to dis...
Mayor: 52 NYC Children Diagnosed With Inflammatory Syndrome
NEW YORK (AP) - A total of 52 children in New York City have been diagnosed with an inflammatory syndrome possibly linked to COVID-19 and another 10 cases are pending, Mayor Bill d...
Police Arrest Lakewood Rabbi Who Claimed COVID-19 Restrictions Are Unconstitutional
LAKEWOOD (VINnews) — A few days ago Rabbi Yisrael Knopfler of Lakewood, N.J. joined a lawsuit presented by a Catholic priest, Kevin Robinson of the St. Anthony church in North Cald...
IMF Warns Against Removing Lockdowns Too Early In Europe And Asia
PARIS (VINnews) — The International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday that countries in Europe and Asia need to proceed cautiously in removing lockdowns or they risk renewed coronavirus...
Fauci: Hopeful Of Vaccine Trials By Winter
WASHINGTON — Dr. Anthony Fauci says the government is working on several potential vaccines for COVID-19.
“We have many candidates and hope to have many winners,” he told the Se...
Cubicle Comeback? Pandemic Will Reshape Office Life For Good
LONDON (AP) — Office jobs are never going to be the same.
When workers around the world eventually return to their desks, they’ll find many changes due to the pandemic. For a st...
Childrens’ Star Has Contractions During Live TV Interview
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Even seasoned interviewers like Paula and Leon Rosenberg, veteran anchors on Israeli television, were slightly nonplussed when interviewee Einat Madani, a chi...
Virus Unleashes Wave Of Fraud In Us Amid Fear And Scarcity
WASHINGTON (AP) — A 39-year-old former investment manager in Georgia was already facing federal charges that he robbed hundreds of retirees of their savings through a Ponzi scheme ...
Railway Worker Dies Of Coronavirus After Passerby Who Says He Has COVID-19 Spits On Her
LONDON (VINnews) — Belly Mujinga, a 47-year-old railway ticket office worker, died of coronavirus just two weeks after a man who said he was infected spat and coughed on her and on...
IDF Soldier Hit By Stone And Killed During Operation In Samarian Arab Village
HAIFA (VINnews) — IDF soldier staff-sergeant Amit Ben-Yigal (21) was killed Tuesday morning when a stone was thrown on his head in the Samarian village of Yaabed near Mevo Dotan. B...
Trump: Administration Has ‘Met The Moment’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is insisting his administration has “met the moment” and “prevailed” on coronavirus testing.
The president addressed a Rose Garden audience f...
Watch: Batei Ungarin Celebrates Lag Ba’Omer In Style Despite Health Ministry Directives
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the Batei Ungarin neighborhood near Meah Shearim, residents decided to ignore health ministry directives and organized a huge lighting in honor of Lag Ba'O...