Israel Nixes Quarantine Hotels After Some Inside Try To Escape And Others Cause Uproar
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel canceled its plan to quarantine citizens returning from abroad in hotels for two weeks following a public uproar and reported clashes between Israelis in t...
AP Interview: Owner Confronts Israeli Team’s Racist Past
JERUSALEM (AP) — At the age of 39, Moshe Hogeg has made millions of dollars trading in cryptocurrency, bought one of Israel’s most prominent soccer teams and brought in a wealthy E...
Israeli Agunah Receives Get From Moroccan Jail After Landmark Ruling
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The peace agreement between Israel and Morocco has already led to one positive development. In an extraordinary scenario involving the Israeli rabbinical cour...
Gaza Militants Fire Rockets Out To Sea In Military Drill
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired a salvo of rockets into the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday as part of a self-styled military drill aimed at...
Nearly 500,000 Israelis Vaccinated As Infection Rate Continues To Rise
JERUSALEM (JNS) - As Israel’s COVID-19 infection rate on Tuesday approached that recorded in October at the height of the pandemic’s “second wave,” Israeli Health Minister Yuli Ed...
Israel Enters Third Lockdown As Vaccination Spree Sets World Records
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israelis began a third lockdown of indeterminate length Sunday night as the country battles yet another steep wave of COVID-19 infections.
The lockdown comes a...
More Than 20,000 People Immigrated To Israel In 2020 Despite The Pandemic, Says Jewish Agency
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Global pandemic notwithstanding, more than 20,000 Jews from 70 countries made aliyah over the course of 2020, the Jewish Agency reported this week.
Most of the...
Hezbollah Says It Has Doubled Its Arsenal Of Guided Missiles
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said Sunday his group now has twice as many precision-guided missiles as it had a year ago, saying Israel's efforts to prevent it fr...
Moroccan Delegation Expected In Israel This Week, Says Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that a delegation from Morocco would travel to Israel this week to advance diplomatic relations between...
Policewoman Punches Chareidi Protester Repeatedly In Face, Policeman Imitates George Floyd Arrest
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — During a protest Sunday by the Jerusalem Faction over the arrest of a draft dodger yeshiva student, a policewoman was seen punching a Chareidi protester repea...
Israel Leads World In Rate Of Vaccinations: 280,000 Vaccinated In First Week
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel is leading the world in terms of ratio of vaccinations to the entire population, with only tiny Bahrain ahead of Israel in the number of vaccinations a...
Israeli Jets Strike Gaza After Militants Fire Rockets
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft struck several sites in the Gaza Strip early Saturday after Palestinian militants fired two rockets toward southern Israel.
The air...
Scientists At Tel Aviv University Develop New Gene Therapy For Deafness
JERUSALEM (JNS) - A new study from Tel Aviv University (TAU) presents an innovative treatment for deafness based on the delivery of genetic material into the cells of the inner ear...
Israeli Chief Rabbi Refuses To Allow Vaccinations On Shabbos Until They Are Given 24/7
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau was asked by health minister Yuli Edelstein, who is an orthodox Jew himself, whether he would permit vaccinations on Shabbos due...
Israeli Jets Fly Over Beirut, Explosions Reported In Syria
BEIRUT (AP) — Israeli jets flew very low over parts of Lebanon early Friday, terrifying residents on Christmas Eve, some of whom reported seeing missiles in the skies over Beirut.
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Could A Fourth Election Lead To Israel’s Largest-Ever Right-Wing Government?
JERUSALEM (JNS) - In the beginning of March, Israel had just completed its third inconclusive election in less than 12 months, leaving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu barely shy ...
Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin Passes Away At 75
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yehuda Herzl Henkin, one of the prominent Poskim in the religious Zionist community and a grandson of Rabbi Yosef Henkin, passed away Thursday at the ag...
Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein: Vaccine Has The Authority Of Beis Din- And Should Be Taken
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Zilberstein, a member of the Council of Torah Sages and a world-recognized authority on matters of medicine and Halacha, published Wednesday a ...
Suspect Arrested In Esther Horgen Murder Case
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli security forces have apprehended a suspect in the murder on Sunday of Esther Horgen, 52, in a forest near her home in Tal Menashe, it was cleared for publ...
Inventor Of Pfizer Vaccine Says Virus Will Cause More Outbreaks ‘For The Next 10 Years’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Ugur Sahin, the Turkish-German inventor of the world's first approved vaccine for coronavirus, says that the virus could still be causing outbreaks in 10 years...