Pompeo Lands In Israel On First Leg Of Mideast Trip To Sudan, Bahrain, UAE
JERUSALEM (JNS) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo landed in Israel on Monday morning as part of a region-wide trip that includes visits to Sudan, Bahrain and the United Arab Em...
Israel’s Netanyahu Says Now Is Not The Time For Elections, As Lawmakers Struggle Over Make-or-break Budget Negotiations
JERUSALEM (JTA) — JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel will not head to a fourth round of elections just yet.
The government had been set to automatically dissolve on Monday at midnight if ...
Thousands Of Israelis Strike To Protest Violence Against Women In Wake Of Alleged Gang Rape Of 16-year-old
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Thousands of Israelis walked off their jobs at noon on Sunday to protest violence against women, as seven more suspects were arrested in connection with the alleg...
Erdoğan Hosts Hamas Leaders, Including ‘Designated Terrorist’ With $5 Million Bounty
ANKARA (JNS) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted a large delegation of Hamas leaders in Istanbul on Saturday.
According NBC News correspondent Raf Sanchez, who poste...
Coronavirus Chief Gamzu And Chareidim Spar Over Flights To Uman
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel's coronavirus "czar" (project manager) Prof. Ronny Gamzu issued an unequivocal statement Saturday night, stating that "There will be no flights to Uman...
Pompeo, Kushner To Mideast As US Presses Arab-israeli Peace
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration will send two top officials to the Middle East this week in a bid to capitalize on momentum from the historic agreement between Israeli a...
Protests Against Israeli Pm Continue With Momentum
JERUSALEM (AP) - Thousands of Israelis protested outside the prime minister’s official residence Saturday as summer-long demonstrations against Benjamin Netanyahu maintained their ...
UAE Diplomat Says Normalization Has ‘Closed The Gate’ On Annexation
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (JTA) — The United Arab Emirates ambassador to the United States said his country’s move to normalize relations with Israel had “closed the gate on annexation ...
Masks, COVID-19 No Match for Israeli Bodybuilders
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Wearing face masks and not much else, dozens of Israeli bodybuilders greased up their bodies as they prepared to flex their muscles under the scorching Medi...
Gaza Militants Fire 12 Rockets, Israel Strikes Hamas Targets
JERUSALEM (AP) — Palestinian militants fired 12 rockets at Israel from the Gaza Strip overnight, nine of which were intercepted, and Israel responded with three airstrikes on targe...
Hagaon Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Goldberg, Dayan, Rabbi, Editor of Talmudic Encyclopedia, Passes Away At 89
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of one of the greatest Dayanim and Torah personalities in this generation, Rabbi Zalman Nehemia Gol...
Israel Says 2 Rockets Fired From Gaza Strip; No Casualties
JERUSALEM (AP) — Two rockets fired from the Gaza Strip landed near the Israeli security fence late on Thursday, the Israeli military said.
There were no immediate reports of cas...
Opinion: Thank You, Obama And Biden, For Bringing Peace To The Middle East, NOT
JERUSALEM (JNS/Jerome M. Marcus) - The Middle East Peace Process has for decades seen peace in that region depend on negotiations between Israel and the Arabs who live in the rest ...
Israel Clears Protest Camp Ahead Of Pro-Netanyahu Rally
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police dispersed dozens of protesters outside Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's official residence on Thursday ahead of a planned rally by supporters of ...
Petition To Israel’s Supreme Court: Order State To Bring Rabbi Nachman’s Remains To Israel
JERUSALEM (VINNews) — Supreme Court judge Dafna Barak-Erez ordered Prime Minister Netanyahu, the Israeli government and the Jewish Agency to respond to a petition demanding that Is...
Trump Weighs F-35 Jet Sales To UAE Over Israeli Objections
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday the U.S. is considering selling advanced American F-35 warplanes to the United Arab Emirates over the objections of Israeli ...
FBI Twitter Account Tweets Link To Files On ‘Protocols Of Elders Of Zion,’ Sparking Anger And Confusion
WASHINGTON (JTA) - An official FBI Twitter account drew criticism for tweeting a link to a 139-page selection of the bureau’s files on “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” the in...
Orthodox Runner, Israeli Mother of 5, Hires Attorney in Bid to Move Olympics Marathon From Saturday
JERUSALEM (JTA) - Beatie Deutsch, a Sabbath-observing mother of five and aspiring Olympic marathoner in Israel, has hired an attorney to ensure that she can run in the race next ye...
Budget War Continues As Gafni Demands 400 Million NIS For Yeshivas In Order To Postpone Budget
JERUSALEM (VINNews) — The lack of a budget has hurt much of Israeli society, including the yeshivas, kollels and avreichim (married students). Without yet having passed the 2020 b...
Saudi Arabia Cautiously Welcomes UAE, Israel Normalization
BERLIN (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister on Wednesday cautiously welcomed an agreement between its close ally the United Arab Emirates and Israel to establish full ties and ex...
