A Tale Of Two Demonstrations: Tel Aviv vs Jerusalem
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Two demonstrations took place in Israel Saturday night. In Tel Aviv, some ten thousand people gathered to protest government inaction in providing aid to smal...
Israelis Protest Government’s Economic Response To Virus
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in downtown Tel Aviv on Saturday, protesting what is widely seen as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s failure to addres...
Israelis Angry At Netanyahu Over New Outbreak, Economic Pain
JERUSALEM (AP) — With an unprecedented new surge in coronavirus cases battering Israel’s economy, one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants was dispatched to a ...
Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Who Threw Firebombs Toward IDF
AMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank who they said was throwing firebombs at a guard post, but who Palestinian officials...
Chief Of Staff, 10,000 IDF Soldiers In Quarantine After Possible Exposure To Covid
JERUSALEM (JNS) - IDF Chief of Staff Aviv Kochavi, along with 10,000 active duty and civilian employees, were ordered to quarantine on Thursday after being in close contact with pe...
Israel’s Artillery Battalion Commander: ‘There Is No Scenario The IDF Prepares For That Doesn’t Include Us’
JERUSALEM (JNS) - The Artillery Corps of the Israel Defense Forces is responsible for delivering a large portion of the military’s firepower to an increasingly complex battlefield....
Opinion: Understanding The Collapse Of Liberal Zionism
NEW YORK (JNS/Jonathan S. Tobin ) - There’s a reason why most Israelis find it difficult to listen patiently to lectures from liberal American Jews. For Israelis, their country is ...
US Palestinians Urge Biden, If Elected, To Overturn Trump’s Pro-Israel Policies
WASHINGTON (JNS) - Palestinian Americans have been pressuring Democratic Party presidential nominee Joe Biden to shift U.S. policy in favor of the Palestinians if he wins the elect...
Report: IDF Chief Helicopter Plummets Through Engine Malfunction
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi was involved last week in a helicopter accident that could have ended in “disaster,” Channel 12 report...
Israel’s ‘Coronavirus Cabinet’ To Weigh Lockdowns Of Heavily Infected Areas
JERUSALEM (JNS)- Israel’s coronavirus Cabinet is meeting on Thursday to discuss imposing closures on areas with high rates of infection.
According to Channel 12, the areas under...
Canadian Lawmaker Running For Prime Minister Would Move Embassy To Jerusalem
ONTARIO, CANADA (JNS) - Canadian lawmaker Erin O’Toole said on Wednesday that he would move his country’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem if he were elected the next prime minister....
Toronto Restaurant Uses ‘Zionistsnotwelcome’ Hashtag
TORONTO (JTA) — A Toronto health food restaurant with a history of social media posts considered anti-Semitic has come under fire for using the hashtag “zionistsnotwelcome” on Twit...
Israelis Sue Government Over Mistaken Directive To Enter COVID-19 Quarantine
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Some Israelis are suing the state after receiving what they claim were erroneous messages from the Health Ministry telling them to enter quarantine for having com...
Nefesh B’Nefesh: We Received 25,000 Calls in the US During June
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Nefesh B'Nefesh, the veteran Jewish organization which has been encouraging aliya from western countries and the USA, reported unprecedented interest in option...
Why Cairo Has Stayed (Mostly) Silent As Israel Considers Sovereignty
JERUSALEM (JNS) - When Mossad chief Yossi Cohen flew to Egypt last week to meet with the head of Egypt’s General Intelligence Service Abbas Kamal and Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry...
Report: Mossad Thwarts Multiple Iranian Attacks On Israeli Embassies
JERUSALEM (JNS) - The Mossad has prevented multiple Iranian attacks against Israeli embassies in Europe and elsewhere, Channel 12 reported on Monday night.
According to the repo...
Girl Detained By Israeli Police: ‘I’m Still Trembling’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Batya Getter, the 11-year-old girl detained by police because she did not have a mask, has still not fully recovered from the traumatic episode. Getter's fath...
United Airlines To Launch Tel Aviv-chicago Route, Add More Flights To Israel
NEWARK, NJ (JNS) - United Airlines announced on Tuesday that it is further expanding its international schedule in September with nonstop service three days a week between Chicago ...
Chareidi Woman Told: ‘You Spread Disease, All Of You Should Be Put In A Ghetto. I Hate You’
TEL AVIV (VINnews) — An unfortunate corollary of the first wave of the coronavirus epidemic is that many Israelis believe the source of the outbreaks to be from the Chareidi commun...
Israel Sees Six More Covid-19 Deaths; Beitar Illit Declared A Restricted Zone
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israel recorded six more coronavirus-related deaths over the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s death toll from the disease to 343, according to the Israeli He...
