Saturday, May 18, 2024

Israel

Biden’s Trip Produced Mixed Bag Of Results For Israel, Experts Say

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WASHINGTON (JNS) - U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel and the Middle East accomplished most of the administration’s goals, but from Israel’s point of view the results were ...

Israel Police Facing Personnel Crisis, Says Commissioner

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - A record number of police officers have quit the force during the first six months of 2022, creating an unprecedented personnel crisis, according to Israel Police...

BDE: World Mizrachi President Kurt (Gershon) Rothschild Passes Away At Age 101

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The religious Zionist world as well as many other Torah institutions mourn the passing of Mr. Kurt Rothschild, a philanthropist, businessman and Mizrachi acti...

Pendant With Image Of Netanyahu Causes Uproar: ‘Idol Worship’

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Likud party activist Heidi Moses (daughter of former UTJ MK Menahem Eliezer Moses) caused an uproar Sunday when she took a pendant carrying a portrait of Biny...

Saudi Foreign Minister Denies Reports Of Gulf-Israeli Defense Alliance Talks

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JERUSALEM (JNS) - Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister denied on Saturday previous reports that his country has been involved in discussions on setting up a Gulf-Israeli defense allianc...

‘I Thought He Was Going To Kill Me’: Woman Describes Attack By Biden Secret Service Agent

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Although nearly a week has passed since the attack by a US secret service agent from Biden's entourage on a young Jerusalemite woman, it is hard for her to re...

Arab Who Maltreated Special Needs Chareidi Youth At Supermarket Jailed And Fined

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Magistrates Court sentenced Kamel Hamidan of Beit Jalla to 12 months in jail after he maltreated a chareidi special needs youth four years ago a...

Israeli Policeman Murdered As Palestinian Car Thief Rams Him At Roadblock

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An Israeli policeman was rammed and murdered by a Palestinian car thief who broke through a roadblock near Raanana on Saturday night. Staff Sergeant Major ...

YIFA SEGAL: The sweet victory against Ben & Jerry’s deters other boycotts

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ISRAEL (Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security) — Ice cream manufacturer Ben & Jerry’s announcement of its intention to boycott Israel by not allowing its products to be...

Biden Tweet About Israel Trip Mysteriously Deleted

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MIDDLE EAST (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Following President Biden's trip to Israel this week, his official @POTUS Twitter account posted a tweet, affirming his support for Israel's secu...

Saudi Arabia Downplays Normalization With Israel

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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s top diplomat on Saturday downplayed talk of normalization with Israel after the kingdom opened its airspace to Israeli commercial flights and ...

Israel Strikes Gaza Target In Response To Rocket Fire

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JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military attacked what it said was a Hamas military site in the Gaza Strip early Saturday in response to a pair of rocket attacks overnight. The exchan...

Rabbi Weiss, Leader Of Eda Chareidis, In Serious Condition

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JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The head of the Eda Chareidis, Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, was  in hospital for a while due to a lingering infection in his foot which has spread to the rest ...

WATCH: Biden Pledges to Send COVID-19 to Palestinians

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WEST BANK (Yaakov M / VINnews) — Although President Biden claims that he's a friend of the Palestinians, he may be secretly trying to infect them with a pandemic. In this vi...

In West Bank, Biden Embraces ‘Two States For Two Peoples’

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BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — President Joe Biden, visiting the West Bank on Friday, restated his continued support for “two states for two peoples” but acknowledged that the “ground...

In Jerusalem, A Torah Lesson From Biden Shows His Grasp Of Judaism’s Quirky Calendar

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JERUSALEM (JTA) - Throughout President Joe Biden’s visit to Jerusalem this week, he has underscored the ways that he believes the United States and Israel are aligned. But in his r...

Saudi Arabia Lifts Ban On Israeli Flights

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JERUSALEM — Saudi Arabia on Friday opened its airspace to “all air carriers,” signaling the end of its longstanding ban on Israeli flights overflying its territory — a key step tow...

Jewish Group Asks Iceland To Act On Pro-Palestine Website

BOSTON (AP) — A Jewish advocacy group is calling on Iceland's government to take action against a pro-Palestine website seeking to “dismantle” various Boston-area Jewish institutio...

WATCH: Baalas Teshuva Refuses to Shake Biden’s Hand Due to Religious Beliefs

ISRAEL (VINnews) In this amazing video, President Biden attempts to shake hands with יובל דיין who recently became a baalas teshvah. However she courageously refused because of...