US Official, Palestinians Speak In First Administrative Contact In Years
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Officials in the Biden administration and the Palestinian Authority held a discussion on Monday in what appears to be the first formal contact between the United...
Israel Sends 5,000 Coronavirus Vaccines To The Palestinian Areas
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel is sending 5,000 coronavirus vaccines to the Palestinian areas, earning praise from some U.S. lawmakers who had urged the country to extend its successful ...
Holocaust Survivor Wants Israel To Grant Residency To His Rescuer’s Dutch Great-Granddaughter
AMSTERDAM (JTA) — A Holocaust survivor in Israel is pleading with authorities there to allow the great-granddaughter of his rescuer to live in the Jewish state with her parents.
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Decorated EMT Becomes First Female Head Of United Hatzalah Chapter
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Vicky Tiferet, a volunteer EMT with United Hatzalah in the northern Israeli town of Moshav Yuval, was appointed last week as head of the organization’s Emek HaHul...
Israel’s Labor Party Looks To New Leader For Revival
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Last week, Israel’s Labor party appeared headed for extinction, with polls indicating it wouldn't win enough votes in upcoming elections to enter parliament...
For the First Time: Matzah Bakery Established at the Home of Hagaon Rav Chaim Kanievsky
Special Matzos Being Sent by Hagaon Rav Chaim to Supporters of Hagaon Rav Shalom Ber Sorotzkin’s Yeshiva Ateres Shlomo, With Rav Chaim’s Blessings of Abundance and Eternal Salvatio...
COVID-19 Makes A Shidduch As Couple Meet At Hotel For Coronavirus Patients
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With all the harsh news about the COVID-19 pandemic, it is uplifting sometimes to hear that good things can come from coronavirus. The following post tells th...
Bereaved Father Rabbi Mordechai Rindenow Dies Of COVID-19 And Is Buried Next To IDF Soldier Son
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Dr. Mordechai Rindenow, who lost his youngest son Shlomo in an IDF military accident four years ago, passed away from coronavirus at the age of 64 just ...
‘Kollel Balfour” To Open Outside Israeli PM’s Residence
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Popular Israeli radio broadcaster Menachem Toker has teamed up with businessman Dedi Graucher in an attempt to establish a Kollel for Torah study adjacent to ...
Israeli Company With Military-Grade Surveillance Aims To Defend Jewish Communities Abroad
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Injecting the civilian world with military-based video surveillance techniques is a vision that Col. (res.) Oded Halevy, CEO of the Gotrack HLS company, has spent...
Facebook Draws Left-Wing Ire After Employee Says The Site Could Police The Term ‘Zionists’
CALIFORNIA (JTA) — A leaked email written by a Facebook employee hints that the social media giant may review its policy on allowing the term “Zionist,” and pro-Palestinian groups ...
Activists Chain Gates At Israeli Arms Company’s UK Factory
LONDON (AP) — Protesters have blocked the entrance of an Israeli-owned factory in England where they claim deadly weapons are made.
Activists from Palestine Action and Extinctio...
Kosovo, Israel Establish Diplomatic Ties
PRISTINA, Kosovo (AP) — Kosovo and Israel formally established diplomatic ties on Monday in a ceremony held digitally due to the pandemic lockdown.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Meliz...
Netanyahu Urges European Leaders To Block Kosher Slaughter Ban
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has written to a number of European leaders, asking that they allow kosher slaughter to continue in their countries.
The letter went ou...
Jared Kushner And Avi Berkowitz Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Former White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, the son-in-law of former president Donald Trump, and his deputy, Avi Berkowitz, have been nominated for the No...
Lebanon’s Hezbollah Group Says It Shot Down Israeli Drone
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s militant Hezbollah group said its fighters shot down an Israeli drone on Monday over a southern village near the border with Israel. The Israeli military di...
Op-Ed: How Should We Relate To Pictures From The Mass Funeral Of Rabbi Soloveitchik?
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — If Rabbi Meshulam Dovid Soloveitchik had passed away exactly a year ago, the pictures from his funeral would have been inspiring and uplifting. The fact that ...
Opinion: Taking The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Advice To Heal Israel’s Societal Rift
JERUSALEM (JNS/ Sivan Rahav-Meir) - Most of the haredim in Israel are being punished twice during the coronavirus crisis. On the one hand, most are abiding by the rules, while and ...
Israel Extends Its Lockdown For At Least 5 Days
JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli Cabinet has voted to extend a nationwide lockdown for at least five more days as it struggles to bring a raging coronavirus outbreak under control.
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Researchers Find ID Tags Of Four Jewish Children Sent To Their Deaths At Sobibor
NEW YORK (JNS) — Personal identification tags bearing the names of four Jewish children who were deported to the Sobibor extermination camp in Poland have recently been retrieved i...