Orthodox Pilgrimage To The Grave Of Kabbalah Rabbi Buried In Istanbul Picks Up After COVID Slump
ISTANBUL (JTA) — Dozens of Orthodox Jews gathered on a hill overlooking the Bosphorus Strait.
Above them, guarding the hilltop, stood a Turkish military base, and below sat the ...
Ben-Gvir: Maher Younis Should Be Shipped Off To Syria
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Thursday expressed satisfaction with police efforts to prevent any major celebrations for Maher Younis, who ...
Poland Reviews Security After Divers Found Near Key Port
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's prime minister said Thursday that the country was reviewing the supervision of its gas and oil installations and other strategic locations after a we...
Israel’s Attorney General Calls On Netanyahu To Fire Deri
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara demanded on Thursday that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fire coalition partner Aryeh Deri of the Shas Party from his gover...
Israeli And PA Envoys Hurl Accusations At Security Council
UNITED NATIONS (JNS) - The Israeli and Palestinian Authority ambassadors to the United Nations slung barbs at each other in a fiery debate on Wednesday at the U.N. Security Council...
Chief Rabbi Lau: Cell-Cultured Meat Is Parev, But Shouldn’t Be Eaten Or Marketed With Dairy Products
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a groundbreaking ruling, Israel's Chief Rabbi David Lau stated that the cell-cultured meat produced by Israeli food tech company Aleph Farms is pareve. Ho...
Ben-Gvir Orders Police To Prevent Celebrations As Murderer Of Soldier Released From Jail After 40 Years
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Mahir Younes, one of the terrorists involved in the murder of IDF soldier Avraham Bromberg in 1980, was released from prison Thursday morning after 40 years b...
Israeli Media Pundit Amit Segal: Deri Cannot Be Minister In Current Knesset, Could Be ‘Alternate PM’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of Wednesday's bombshell decision by Israel's High Court to disqualify Aryeh Deri from serving as a minister in the government, Deri’s tenure as i...
US Set To Drop Charges That NYPD Officer Spied For China
NEW YORK (AP) — Prosecutors are dropping charges against a New York City police officer and military veteran who was accused of helping the Chinese government keep tabs on Tibetans...
Fugitive’s Arrest Like A ‘Quake,’ But Mafia Very Resilient
ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro's long record as a killer — turncoat mobsters said he'd boast of enough murders to fill a cemetery — greatly burnished his credentials among his p...
Israel Deports Italian Activist Arrested In West Bank Raid
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel deported an Italian activist to Italy after security forces detained her during a raid in the West Bank, Israeli authorities said Tuesday, accusing her of h...
World’s Oldest Known Person, French Nun, Dies At 118
PARIS (AP) — A French nun who was believed to be the world’s oldest person has died a few weeks before her 119th birthday, the spokesperson for her nursing home in southern France ...
UK Nurses Stage New Walkout As Strike Wave Intensifies
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of nurses in Britain walked out Wednesday in a new protest over pay, with no end in sight to a wave of strikes that has piled pressure on the U.K.‘s overbur...
At Davos, UN Chief Warns The World Is In A ‘Sorry State’
DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The world is in a “sorry state" because of myriad “interlinked” challenges including climate change and Russia's war in Ukraine that are “piling up like c...
Putin: Ukraine Action Aimed To End ‘War’ Raging Since 2014
ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that Moscow's action in Ukraine was intended to stop a “war” that has raged in eastern Ukraine for man...
NATO Warns Of Russia’s Long War In Ukraine, Vows To Be Ready
BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia is preparing for an extended war so NATO must get ready “for the long haul” and support Ukraine for as long as it takes, the alliance's deputy secretary gene...
Ukraine Interior Minister, Others Killed In Helicopter Crash
BROVARY, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine's interior minister died Wednesday in a helicopter crash near the capital that killed more than a dozen other people, including children, authoritie...
Furious Right-Wing Response To Deri Decision: ‘Throwing 400,000 Votes In The Garbage, Court Attempts Political Coup’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shas leaders and other members of the Likud-led coalition in Israel reacted angrily to the High Court decision to disqualify Aryeh Deri from serving as a mini...
Jerusalem Beis Din Dayanim Rush To Psychiatric Hospital To Obtain Get From Husband In Moment Of Sanity
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The dayanim from the Jerusalem Regional Beis Din made a special visit to the Eitanim psychiatric hospital to release an aguna. The dayanim, together with a So...
DRAMA: Israeli High Court Disqualifies Shas Leader Deri, Rocking Political Establishment
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli high court has acceded to the petitions against the appointment of Shas leader Aryeh Deri, disqualifying him from serving as a minister in Netanya...