Israel Lifts Tariffs on U.S. Imports to Avert Trade Dispute
JERUSALEM - Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has signed an order removing all remaining tariffs on goods imported from the United States. The decision, made in coordination with P...
Hamas Official: Israel Doesn’t Want To End War, So No Reason To Free Hostages
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Hamas senior official Sami Abu Zuhri responded to the latest proposal for a prisoner exchange, which includes the release of half of the remaining Israeli ho...
After Political Fallout, Netanyahu Backtracks On Shin Bet Director Appointment
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After severe criticism from coalition members and even from pro-Israel elements in the Trump administration, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesd...
Brigadier Winter: We Don’t Push Judicial Reform By Force, Don’t Conscript Charedim By Force
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Reserve Brigadier General Ofer Winter, who left the IDF a few months ago and whose candidacy to head the new Gaza Migration Administration is currently being ...
Netanyahu Appoints Former Navy Commander As Shin Bet Director
JERUSALEM (VINnews) —After interviewing seven potential candidates to replace outgoing Shin Bet directore Ronen Bar, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this morning (Monda...
Yarden Bibas, Keith Siegel Describe Horrific Captivity Experiences On 60 Minutes
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview aired Sunday night on CBS's "60 Minutes," former hostage Yarden Bibas spoke for the first time about the horrors he endured since October 7 a...
Former Hostage Yarden Bibas Praises Trump for His Release, Urges President to Intervene in Conflict and Rescue Hostages
ISRAEL (VINnews)-Yarden Bibas, who endured 484 days in captivity by Hamas, has spoken out in his first television interview with an American media outlet. In the emotional intervie...
Gaps Between Israel And Hamas Stall Negotiations To Free Hostages
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Significant gaps remain between Israel and Hamas despite the terror croup’s acceptance of a proposal to release five living hostages.
While it appears that t...
Israel Confirms: UAE Sentences Murderers Of Rabbi Tzvi Kogan To Death
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The United Arab Emirates has sentenced to death the three Uzbek citizens who murdered Chabad emissary Tzvi Kogan, according to diploma...
Oregon Nurse Fired After Justifying Death Of Bibas Family, Calling Jews ‘Dogs And Vermin’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Camesha Hart, a 51-year-old a nurse at the Oregon Health and Science University Hospital (OHSU), has been fired after claiming that the murder of the Bibas fam...
Daughter Of Murdered Hostage Reveals Failed Attempt To Retrieve His Body
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During a Saturday night rally in Hostages Square in Tel Aviv, Bar Goddard, the daughter of slain hostage Manny Goddard HY"D, whose body is being held in Gaza,...
Israel Supplied Intelligence for U.S. Airstrike on Houthis
WASHINGTON D.C (VINnews)-The Wall Street Journal reported that Israel played a key role in providing intelligence that supported a U.S. airstrike targeting Houthi forces in Yemen....
Israel Demands Release Of All Hostages In Single Phase, Deportation Of 3000 Hamas Leaders
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Egyptian sources involved in mediating diplomatic negotiations told the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar that a breakthrough in the negotiations could take place ...
Mother Of Hostage Appeals To Captors In Arabic: Take Care Of Him Until Deal Is Reached
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The mother of Matan Tsangauker, one of the hostages being held by Hamas, recorded an empassioned request directly to his captors, even...
Knesset Passes Key Judicial Reform, Amendment To Judicial Selection Committee,
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Knesset has passed the controversial bill to change the makeup of the judicial selection committee, which will greatly increase political power over the j...
Stef Wertheimer, Palmach Veteran Who Founded 6 Industrial Parks In Israel, Passes Away At 98
JERUSALEM (VINnews) - Ze'ev (Stef) Wertheimer, an Israeli billionaire industrialist, investor, philanthropist and former politician, passed away on Wednesday at age 98. A former Me...
Lebanon May Have A Will To Disarm Hezbollah But Does It Have A Way?
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Yisrael Hayom newspaper reports that Lebanon is now in the midst of political upheaval as it seeks to comply with US demands to demilitarize Hezbollah, we...
Trump Says Peace With Hamas ‘May Not Be Possible, They’re A Brutal Group Of People’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — U.S. President Donald Trump was asked in an interview with Newsmax on Tuesday whether peace could be achieved while Hamas remains in power — just days after h...
Widespread Anti-Hamas Protests Break Out In Gaza As Civilian Frustration Grows
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In recent days, residents of the Gaza Strip have begun protesting publicly against Hamas' continued rule — a rare phenomenon that started in the north and qui...
Three Years After Moishy Kleinerman Disappeared, No Leads On His Whereabouts
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three days ago, on the Hebrew date of 22nd Adar II 5782, marked three years since the mysterious disappearance of Moishy Kleinerman, a 16-year-old youth from ...
