Israel Successfully Tests Naval Air Defense System
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel on Monday said it successfully tested a new naval air defense system, intercepting a series of threats in what officials called a key layer of protection ag...
70 Years On, Mystery Of Man Behind Knesset Menorah Solved
JERUSALEM (JNS) - One of Israel’s most curious mysteries was solved on Sunday when the identity of the artist who created the small bronze menorah that stands on the Knesset ground...
Foreign Minister Lapid: Israel Will ‘Consider’ Sanctions Against Russia In Event Of Invasion
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said in a channel 12 interview Sunday that in the event of a Russian invasion Israel would side with her longtime ally the US, des...
Watch: Israeli Rabbi Visits Tehran’s Bazaar, Taking Selfies While Talking Hebrew
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An Israeli rabbi from Jerusalem's Ramat Shlomo neighborhood recently visited Tehran and spoke freely in Hebrew at the city's bazaar, while wearing rabbinical ...
After Significant Price Hike, Rabbi Aviner Says: Don’t Buy Hamantaschen This Year
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shlomo Chaim Aviner, the rabbi of Beit El and head of the Ateret Kohanim yeshiva has called on Israelis not to eat hamantaschen this year, in the wake o...
Yeshiva Student Jailed By IDF For Desertion Denied Kosher Badatz Food For 7 Days, Subsisting On Bread And Water
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A member of the Jerusalem Faction, a group which does not recognize the authority of the army to register yeshiva students, was arrested by military police as...
Israeli Grows World’s Heaviest Strawberry – Guinness World Records
Jerusalem (JNS) - An Israeli farmer has grown the heaviest strawberry ever recorded, according to Guinness World Records.
The accomplishment was widely reported over the weekend...
Eichmann Prosecutor, Israeli Justice Gabriel Bach Dies At 94
JERUSALEM (AP) — Gabriel Bach, a prosecutor in the 1961 trial of notorious Nazi Adolf Eichmann who went on to serve on Israel's Supreme Court, has died. He was 94.
The Israel Ju...
Israeli PM: New Iran Nuclear Deal ‘Weaker’ Than Previous One
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel’s prime minister said Sunday that the emerging deal over Iran’s nuclear program is less stringent than the previous agreement, which was left in tatt...
Austrian Man Collapses After Eating Tahina For First Time – And Is Saved By Alert Jerusalem Medics
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 46-year-old Walther Spilman, a representative of a sports technology company, arrived in Israel for work meetings with the Ariel company which directs the Jer...
Israel To Allow Unvaccinated Tourists Into Country
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel announced Sunday that it would allow unvaccinated tourists to enter the country beginning next month as the latest wave of the coronavirus recedes.
Prime...
As Ukraine Situation Deteriorates, Israel Prepares For Potential Wave Of Immigrants: ‘Historic Opportunity’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the crisis on the Russian-Ukrainian border and possible Russian invasion, the Israeli government is preparing a contingency plan for the emerge...
‘— Jews’ Sprayed Outside Israeli Restaurant On Upper West Side
NEW YORK (JTA) — A recently opened Israeli restaurant on the Upper West Side has been vandalized with vulgar, antisemitic graffiti.
On Thursday morning, staffers arrived at Miri...
Young Charedi Girl Miraculously Unscathed After Car Ambushed by Arabs
LOD (VINnews) — The violence in mixed Israeli cities continues. On Motzei Shabbos, a Chabad family was ambushed by a terrifying group of Arab rioters. Miraculously, one of the smal...
Israel Fires Missiles At Alleged Drone Flown From Lebanon
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Friday said it fired interceptor missiles and protectively scrambled warplanes after what it described as a drone launched from Lebanon cro...
Report: Gur Enticing Tens Of Youths To Leave Homes Of Parents Who Joined Rabbi Shaul’s Breakaway Faction
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Haaretz investigative reporter Aharon Rabinowitz, who exposed Chaim Walder's actions to the public, claims in a new report that the Gur chasidus is actively w...
WATCH: Rav Sternbuch Celebrates Completion of Difficult Sugya with a “L’chaim”
ISRAEL (VINnews) — HaGaon HaRav Moshe Shternbuch surprised students this week after delivering his “shiur klali”, when he asked them to bring him a l’chaim.
As reported in B'Cha...
Israel Shoots Down Alleged Drone Launched By Hezbollah
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Thursday said it shot down an unmanned aircraft launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group into Israeli airspace.
The incident occur...
Israel, Citing ‘Bias,’ Won’t Cooperate With UN Rights Team
GENEVA (AP) — Israel on Thursday formally announced it would not cooperate with a special commission formed by the United Nations’ top human rights body to investigate alleged abus...
Israel To Scrap COVID Passport System As Omicron Wanes
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s prime minister says the country’s coronavirus vaccination “green pass” system will be suspended as new daily cases of COVID-19 continue to decline.
Naf...