CDC Adds Israel To Highest Risk Countries For Catching COVID-19
WASHINGTON (VINnews) - The US Centres for Disease Control is advising Americans to stop traveling to Israel after giving the country its highest risk warning for Covid-19.
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Watch: Three Filmmakers Who Visited Igbo Jews Recount Their 20-Day Ordeal In Nigeria
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The three Jewish members of the We Were Never Lost team which sought to document the life of little-known Jewish communities in Africa never imagined that they...
Rabbi Avrohom Dov Auerbach, Rabbi Of Tiberias, Passes Away At 86
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jewish world mourns the loss of Rabbi Avrohom Dovid Auerbach, the rabbi and head of the rabbinical court in Tiberias and the son of Rabbi Shlomo Zalman Au...
Holocaust Survivor Whose Son Was Killed In 2014 Protective Edge Campaign Commits Suicide On Son’s Grave
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Holocaust survivor Moshe Etzion, the father of Ze'ev Etzion who was killed by rocket fire from Gaza during the 2014 Protective Edge campaign, took his own lif...
After Three Days Of Harassment And Indignities, 18 Chareidi Girls Return To The US
NEW YORK (VINnews) — After over three days of exhausting travel and after suffering indignities and humiliation at the hands of two airline companies, the 18 chareidi girls who wer...
Israel PM: Lebanon Responsible For Attacks, Hezbollah Or Not
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's prime minister said Sunday he holds the Lebanese government responsible for rocket fire launched from its territory, whether the Hezbollah militant...
Israeli Gymnast Linoi Ashram Wins Gold Medal At Tokyo Olympics
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli gymnast Linoi Ashram won Israel's second gold medal of the Tokyo Olympics and only its third gold medal of all time. Ashram beat out fierce competitio...
Israel Announces Mike Herzog As New Ambassador To US , Right-Wing MKs Protest Appointment
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced Friday that retired Brig. Gen. Michael Herzog will serve as Israel’s next ambassador to the US. Herzog, the older bro...
Rare 15th Century Hebrew Selichos Revealed In Israel’s National Library
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Elul begins Monday and some communities prepare to say Selichos for the entire month, the Israeli National Library revealed a rare copy of Selichos which i...
Hezbollah Leader Vows Retaliation For Future Israeli Attacks
BEIRUT (AP) — The leader of the militant Hezbollah group said Saturday his group will retaliate against any future Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, a day after his supporters fired a...
Hezbollah Says It Fired Rockets After Israeli Airstrikes
BEIRUT (AP) — The Hezbollah group said it fired a barrage of rockets near Israeli positions close to the Lebanese border on Friday, calling it retaliation for Israeli airstrikes on...
18 Chareidi Girls Detained In Schiphol Airport Will Spend Shabbos in Antwerp
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — 18 chareidi girls returning to the US from the Ukraine were detained at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and claimed to have suffered antisemitic mistreatment for...
Anti-Vaxxer Solicitor Dies Of COVID-19 9 Days After Posting That It Is “Nothing To Be Afraid Of”
NEW YORK (VINnews) — A British anti-vax solicitor with no underlying health conditions died of coronavirus just days after insisting it is "nothing to be afraid of" and hoping that...
Chareidi Groups Declare They Will Not Obey Lockdown Earmarked For Jewish Festivals
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli government has announced its intention of imposing a lockdown over the course of the festival period in September if the coronavirus statistics co...
Satmar Rebbe Slams Vizhnitz-Williamsburg Branch In Kiryas Joel For Not Keeping Rabbeinu Tam Times
NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Satmar Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon, who serves as the spiritual leader of Kiryas Joel has sharply criticized the yeshiva of Vizhnitz-Williamsburg which recently fo...
How Three Israeli Filmmakers Wound Up Becoming The Story In Africa
JERUSAELM (JNS) - Three Israeli documentary filmmakers arrived home safely from Nigeria at the end of last week, after what they described as 20 “hellish days” detained under inhum...
Israeli Defense Minister Threatens Iran With Military Action
TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's defense minister warned Thursday that his country is prepared to strike Iran, issuing the threat against the Islamic Republic after a fatal drone s...
MDA Volunteer On Crutches Performs Lifesaving Treatment On Accident Victim
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Jackie Wertheimer is a devoted paramedic who works for Magen David Adom (MDA) in the Jerusalem area. On a recent call on his motorcycle to the scene of an acc...
Police Raid Illegal Factory Smuggling Meat From Palestinian Territory With Forged Kashrus Symbols
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli border police raided a factory in the Bedouin town of Ar'ara in the Negev region due to a suspicion that the factory was illegally importing meat from...
Lieberman Displays Ignorance Of Public Transport Bus Cards As He Cancels Subsidies On Them
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — It is one thing to be ignorant but another matter when the ignorant person is attempting to make radical and harmful changes in an area where he has no knowle...