Nir Etzion Hotel To Reopen For Chareidi Coronavirus Patients
BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — As the number of COVID-19 patients in Israel has risen exponentially over the last few days, the Home Command and the Defense Ministry have decided to reopene...
Gillibrand Announces $500M In Anti-missile Funding For Israel Into Defense Bill
WASHINGTON (JTA) — For Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York Democrat, the announcement was routine, noting the inclusion of $500 million for Israel’s missile defense in a key defens...
Excavations In Jerusalem Dredge Up A Seal Impression From After First Temple
JERUSALEM (JNS) - A double stamp impression on a bulla and a seal made of used pottery shreds discovered in the City of David may indicate that despite the plight of Jerusalem aft...
Israel Sides With Women Torah Scholars In Saying Chief Rabbinate Discriminates On Accreditation
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Responding to a discrimination lawsuit, Israel has advanced the cause of women Torah scholars in their bid for more equitable treatment.
Israel will establish ...
Opinion: Annexation Is Not Apartheid
JERUSALEM (JNS/DAVID M. WEINBERG) - In this era of radical liberal hypersensitivity, where every slightly conservative position is considered a “personal offense” and automatically...
Netanyahu Signals Delay In West Bank Annexation Plan
JERUSALEM (AP) — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that discussions with the U.S. on his plan to annex occupied West Bank territory would continue “in the coming days,...
Palestinian Authority Says It Is Ready To Restart Peace Negotiations With Israel
RAMALLAH, WEST BANK (JTA) - With the date set by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to begin annexing West Bank territory days away, the Palestinians appear ready to restart...
Watch: New City Of David Findings Shed Light On Period Of Ezra And Nehemia
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The City of David announced that it has discovered seals, known by their Latin name as bullae, which shed light on the status of Jerusalem during the Persian ...
Israeli AG Rejects Netanyahu Request For Financial Legal Aid
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's attorney general said Tuesday he opposed a request from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to have a wealthy American supporter finance his legal defense a...
Israeli Rabbinate Threatens To Suspend Semicha Examinations Over Issue Of Female Participation
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli chief rabbinate has reacted angrily to a legal opinion submitted by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit regarding the issue of females taking semi...
Report: US Envoy’s Herzliya Residence Put Up For Sale At Record $87 Million
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Following the transfer of the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, the Herzliya residence of the U.S. ambassador to Israel has been put on the marke...
Israel Undeterred By International Opposition To Annexation
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears determined to carry out his pledge to begin annexing parts of the occupied West Bank, possibly as soon as Wednesd...
MK Eichler Decries Incitement,Selective Enforcement And Abuse Of Chareidim During Coronavirus
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a Knesset speech Monday, MK Yisrael Eichler (UTJ) sharply criticized the way in which the state of Israel is treating Chareidim during the coronavirus.
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Ocasio-Cortez And Tlaib Among 4 Democrats Calling For Cuts In Israel Aid If Annexation Goes Ahead
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Four progressive House Democrats have written to the secretary of state calling on the United States to cut assistance to Israel should it proceed to annex parts...
A Quiet Israeli Ex-General Emerges As New Foil To Netanyahu
JERUSALEM (AP) — Unlike many of his fellow Israeli generals, Amir Haskel wasn't looking to politics in retirement.
After 32 years in the Israeli Air Force, he became a Holocaust...
Israeli Defense Minister Says Annexation Of West Bank Territory ‘Will Wait,’ Citing Coronavirus Crisis
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel's defense minister says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan to begin annexing West Bank territory will have to wait due to the country's coronavirus cr...
Israeli Health Ministry Wants To Close Shuls Even Though Less Than 4% Infected In Them
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli health ministry called yesterday to close shuls and conduct minyanim of up to 19 people outside, but a survey on the health ministry's site reveal...
Fountain In Donald Trump Square, Petach Tikva Dyed Red: ‘Annexation Will Cost Blood’
Petach Tikva (VINnews) — A fountain in Petach Tikva which has been named in honor of Donald Trump was vandalized and dyed red overnight, making it appear as if it was gushing blood...
UN Rights Chief Says Israeli Annexation Plan ‘Disastrous’
JERUSALEM (AP) — The U.N.’s human rights chief on Monday said that Israel’s plan to begin annexing parts of the occupied West Bank would have “disastrous” consequences for the regi...
At Age 23 And After DNA Search, Bar Hershkowitz Found Out She Had A Sister
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — For 23 years, Bar Hershkowitz was sure that her family consisted only of herself, her mother and an unknown donor through whom her mother had conceived her. H...