15 Years After Lebanon War, Critically Injured Soldier Now Runs Kayaking School
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 15 years ago, Gilad Lahiani was a young soldier in the Nahal brigade. Lahiani, from the village of Odem in the Golan heights, loved rowing kayaks from the age...
Rare ‘Book Of Judges’-Era Inscription Found In Southern Israel
JERUSALEM (JNS) - A rare, 3,100-year-old inscription was discovered during excavations in southern Israel, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced on Monday.
The partial insc...
Arab Member Of Coalition: ‘I Will Dismantle Coalition If Israel Attacks Our Brothers In Gaza’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Bennett government, which is relying on a sliver-thin majority including the Arab party Ra'am, continues to demonstrate its weakness and susceptibility to...
Israel Freezes Funds It Says Aid Attackers’ Families
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's Security Cabinet on Sunday froze nearly $200 million in tax transfers to the Palestinians that it said represented the amount of money the Palestinians tr...
Israel’s SpaceIL Secures Funds For New Lunar Mission
JERUSALEM (AP) — SpaceIL, the nonprofit Israeli initiative whose spacecraft crashed on the moon two years ago, said Sunday that it has secured $70 million in funding to make a seco...
Israeli Court Annuls Parts Of Surrogacy Law Excluding Gays
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel’s Supreme Court on Sunday cleared the way for same-sex couples to have children through surrogate mothers, a move hailed by lawmakers and activists as a vic...
Israeli Search Team Heads Home Weeks After Condo Collapse
SURFSIDE, Fla. (AP) — An Israeli search and rescue team that arrived in South Florida shortly after the Champlain Towers South collapsed last month was heading home Sunday after an...
Netanyahu Vacates Prime Minister’s Residence In Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (AP) — Benjamin Netanyahu and his family vacated the Israeli prime minister's official residence early Sunday, nearly a month after the longtime leader was ousted from of...
Israel Purchases New Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccines, Considers A Possible Third Dose
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Sunday morning that a new batch of vaccines would be arriving from Pfizer in three weeks. Previously it had been fear...
Former Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen To Lead Softbank’s Activities In Israel
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen, who led the covert organization to a string of successful exploits over the last decade, will be taking a new role as dire...
Surfside Collapse Death Toll Reaches 86, Body Of R’ Benny Weisz Identified
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The grim news from the site of the Champlain Tower collapse in Miami continued over the weekend, as rescuers battled the elements in an attempt to recover more...
Israel Says It’s Targeting Hamas’ Cryptocurrency Accounts
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel said Thursday it will begin seizing cryptocurrency accounts used by the Palestinian Hamas group to raise money for its armed wing.
Israeli Defense Minist...
Rep. Lauren Boebert Says Biden’s COVID Vaccine Staff Are ‘Needle Nazis’
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Rep. Lauren Boebert compared federal COVID-19 vaccination efforts to Nazism, tweeting that Joe Biden “has deployed his Needle Nazis” to her Colorado district.
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Snakes At A Kiddush: An Israeli Museum Is Celebrating Its Baby Pythons With A Traditional Ceremony
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Shayna and Cuddles are unlike many new parents in Israel, in that they are pythons. But that doesn’t mean their offspring won’t be feted in a traditional way.
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Recently Developed Visitors’ Route Reveals One Of The Most Magnificent Public Buildings Discovered From Second Temple-Period Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (Western Wall Heritage Foundation) - For the first time in the Western Wall Tunnels, following excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority and the Western Wall Herita...
Jordan, Israel Agree To Water Deal, More West Bank Trade
AMMAN, Jordan (AP) — Jordan reached an agreement Thursday to purchase an additional 50 million cubic meters of water from Israel and to increase its exports to the occupied West Ba...
Opinion: Maybe Anti-Haredi Vitriol Is The Biggest Threat To Israel
JERUSALEM (DANIEL BEIDER) - Day after day, I read articles in Israeli newspapers discussing the unwillingness of the haredi (ultra-orthodox) community to integrate, join the workfo...
Liberman Quotes Rambam To Defend Cancelling Subsidies: Not Earning Livelihood Is ‘Chilul Hashem’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a bizarre attempt to fend off the significant public criticism both from the coalition and the opposition over his controversial decision to cancel childca...
Israel Levels West Bank Home Of Palestinian-American Suspect
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces on Thursday demolished the family home of a Palestinian-American man accused of being involved in a deadly attack on Israelis in the West Bank in Ma...
Israeli Supreme Court: Parents Of Juvenile Who Commits Terror Attacks Can Receive His Allowances
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In yet another example of the lengths to which the Israeli Supreme Court is willing to go in interpreting Israel's basic laws, the court struck down an amendm...