3 Different Polls Show That Most Israelis Support Gender Separation During Public Prayers
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the brawls which broke out at gender-separate public prayers on Yom Kippur, a number of different polls demonstrated that most Israelis still f...
Israel’s High Court Demands That The State Discipline Rabbi Amar Over His ‘Inciteful’ Remarks
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli High Court of Justice issued a temporary injunction, asking the government to explain why Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Shlomo Amar has not faced discipli...
17,000 Adirei HaTorah Heroines Honored at BMG Evening of Inspiration
A sea of women filled the N'Shei Adirei HaTorah gathering last week, in a splendiferous tribute to the women standing beside their husbands steeped in Torah. The attendees were not...
Rav Shmuel Eliyahu: ‘They’ll Prohibit Synagogue Prayer And Circumcision In The Name Of Freedom’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rav Shmuel Eliyahu responded sharply to the protests in Tel Aviv over the gender-separate prayers. Rabbi Eliyahu wrote that the "democrats" are attempting to ...
Israel Announces US Visa Waiver, But The US Says Decision On Waiver Has Yet To Be Reached
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israelן Foreign Minister Eli Cohen declared Monday night that Israel would be joining the US’s Visa Waiver Program and termed it “important news for all Israe...
Protesters Disrupt Kol Nidrei Prayers In Dizengoff Square After Flags Were Hung Instead Of Mechitza
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a shameless desecration of the holiest day of the year, anti-religious protesters prevented a Yom Kippur prayer service with separate seating for men and w...
Psak From Rav Moshe Sternbuch : Dont’ Give Children Candies On Yom Kippur
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic psak given during the Shabbos Shuva drasha, Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the leading posek of the Edah Charedis, said that parents should not give the...
Tel Aviv Judge Nixes Mechitza At Outdoor Minyan For Neila Prayers, Claims It ‘Excludes Women’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tel Aviv District Court judge Hadas Ovadia ruled Thursday that the Rosh Yehudi community could not continue to place a Mechitza in the Dizengoff square when t...
Stabbing Attack At French Hill Railway Station, 1 Lightly Injured, Terrorist Neutralized
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In another sign of the growing motivation of terrorist organizations to carry out terror attacks during the holiday period, a terrorist attacked and stabbed a...
WATCH: Heads Of Neturei Karta Embrace Iranian Leader Ebrahim Raisi
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a shocking act of solidarity with Israel's biggest foe, members of the Neturei Karta organization met and even embraced Iranian leader Ebrahim Raisi during ...
Did He Do It? Ben Uliel Murder Saga Continues To Rock Political Establishment In Israel
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In 2015, nearly 8 years ago, a house in the Samarian village of Duma was torched. Two people, members of the Dawabshe clan, died in the flames and their son w...
In Historic Interview, Saudi Prince Bin Salman Says Peace With Israel ‘Gets Closer Every Day’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a historic interview on Fox News which aired Wednesday, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman spoke candidly about the negotiations for a normalization agr...
WATCH: Head Of Eli Pre-Military Academy Accosted, Heckled By Left-Wing Protesters In Tel Aviv
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Dozens of protesters came out Tuesday night to violently demonstrate against a Torah lesson by Rabbi Yigal Levinstein, head of the Bnei David pre-military aca...
Gazan Resident Found In Tel Aviv With Butcher’s Knife, Shin Bet Foils Smuggling Explosives To Gaza
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli police thwarted an apparent terrorist attack Wednesday morning, after they arrested a resident of Gaza at Tel Aviv's Savidor Central rail station, car...
Former Premier Ehud Barak On CBS: ‘Lives Will Be Lost In Fight Over Judicial Reforms’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak slammed the current Israeli government, stating that the current protests against the government's judicial reform pl...
Rabbi Ariel Describes Shabbos Shofar-Blowing: ‘People Came From All Sectors And All Of Israel’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yisrael Ariel, head of the Temple Institute, spoke to Israel National News about the unusual situation of blowing a shofar at the Temple Institute on Ro...
Israeli Radio Anchor Calls Charedim ‘Cancer In Israeli Public’, Prompting Calls For His Suspension
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Radio anchor Ron Koffman, who has in the past made pejorative references to charedim, spoke out on his program Tuesday terming them "Cancer in the Israeli pub...
Netanyahu And Elon Musk Talk Antisemitism, Judicial Reform During Friendly Chat Streamed On X
NEW YORK (JTA) – Elon Musk is famous for cracking down on staffers who criticize him, whether at Tesla, the electric car company he owns, or at X, the social media platform he purc...
Former Israeli Ambassador: Netanyahu’s ‘Embarrassing’ Musk Visit Is ‘Stab In The Eye’ Of Biden
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's initial meeting in the US with Tesla founder Elon Musk, former deputy foreign minister and former ambassado...
Arab Media Outlets Condemn Temple Mount Shofar Blowing As ‘Dangerous Attack On Al-Aqsa’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Arab world reacted angrily after several Jewish men blew the shofar on Temple Mount on the second day of Rosh Hashana. This is the third consecutive year ...