US Policy Of Labeling West Bank Products As ‘Made In Israel’ Takes Effect
WASHINGTON (JNS) - The U.S. policy of requiring products made in Israeli settlements in the West Bank as “Made in Israel” took effect last week, according to U.S. Customs and Borde...
Fiancee Of Settler Youth Killed In Police Ramming Humiliated During Police Interrogation
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A week after the tragic death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when a police car rammed into the car he was travelling in during a high-speed chase, the affai...
Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai Enters National Politics, Forming New Center-Left Party
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Veteran Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who has long expressed his wish to enter national politics, has decided to launch a new center-left party to run in Israel's...
Update: Pollard Arrives In Israel, Welcomed By PM
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday with his wife, triumphantly kissing the ground as he d...
PHOTOS: Jonathan Pollard Arrives Home In Israel, 35 Years After Arrest
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jonathan Pollard, who spent 30 years in U.S. prison for spying for Israel, arrived in Israel early Wednesday with his wife, an Israeli newspaper reported, culminat...
Millions Of Shekels Transferred By German Government Do Not Reach Holocaust Survivors
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Ynet investigation discovered that tens of millions of shekels transferred by the German government and earmarked for Holocaust survivors did not in fact re...
Former US Embassy Apartment In Tel Aviv Sold For $67 Million, Highest Ever For Israeli Property
TEL AVIV (JTA) — The former U.S. ambassador’s residence in Tel Aviv sold for $67 million in July, according to an Israeli tax record made public on Monday, the highest price ever f...
Israel’s Blue And White Teetering After Key Resignations
JERUSALEM (AP) — A senior member of Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's Blue and White party resigned Tuesday, pushing the once-formidable movement farther toward collapse ahead...
In Israel, 1 In Every 132 Haredi Orthodox Adults Over Age 65 Has Died From The Coronavirus
JERUSALEM (JTA) - In Israel, as in the United States, haredi Orthodox communities have been hard hit by the coronavirus.
Now new data from the Israeli Ministry of Health shows t...
World Economic Forum Touts Israel-Produced Fake Meat As ‘Taste Of The Future’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Could we be eating fake meat in the near future? This is what the Swiss-based World Economic Forum would have us believe. The organization has been touting fak...
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...