Sderot – My name is Eli Pollack and in addition to being the CEO of United Hatzalah, I am also a volunteer first responder and EMT. On Sunday night, I was visiting the southern town of Netivot to spend time with the local volunteers and help facilitate some new projects for our teams in the [...]

Wall Street – Stocks closed broadly higher on Wall Street Monday as investors found reason to be cautiously optimistic again about the potential for progress in the costly trade war between the U.S. and China. The gains reversed some of the major stock indexes’ hefty losses from last Friday, when jitters over the latest escalation [...]

Jerusalem – Labor Party chairman Amir Peretz has given a whole new meaning to the expression “Read my lips.” Peretz sacrificed the mustache that he has sported in various stages of bushiness for the past 47 years to make a point about a future unity government. “I decided to remove my mustache so that all [...]

Biarritz, France – U.S. President Donald Trump skipped a discussion on climate with other world leaders at the Group of Seven summit in France — then claimed to “know more about the environment than anyone.” Trump left an empty chair as global power brokers debated Monday how to help the fire-stricken Amazon and reduce carbon [...]

Pittsburgh – The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the Tree of Life mass shooting suspect Robert Bowers, KDKA reports. Bowers is accused of killing 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue last year. Follow VIN News on WhatsApp Status for the latest breaking news and updates! CLICK HERE to get started.

Jerusalem – Israel intends to initiate a pilot program which will automatically measure the weight of trucks on Israel's only toll road- the Cross Israel Highway(Road 6), according to a report by the Calcalist newspaper. The program is part of a concerted effort by the Transportation Ministry to prevent lethal accidents involving heavy vehicles. Road [...]

Fort Lauderdale – Three employees of a Florida nursing home where 12 people died in sweltering heat after a hurricane cut power turned themselves in on Monday to face charges, their attorneys said. Attorneys Jim Cobb and Lawrence Hashish told The Associated Press they were uncertain what charge their clients faced but expected it to [...]

Israel – This week marked the 90th anniversary of the Hevron massacre. On the 18th and 19th of Av 5689 (1929), the Arab population of Hevron fell upon their Jewish neighbors with whom they had lived peacefully for hundreds of years and murdered men, women and children in cold blood and in the most gruesome [...]

Amherst, NY – Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is scheduled to receive an honorary degree from the University at Buffalo. The 86-year-old justice recently completed radiation therapy for a cancerous tumor on her pancreas. The Supreme Court announced Friday that Ginsburg underwent three weeks of outpatient radiation therapy beginning Aug. 5. It says there is no [...]

Jordan – This week was the 90th anniversary of the Hevron massacre, in which at least 67 Jews were brutally murdered by the palestinians in cold blood. Jews all around the world mourn this horrific tragedy every year. In 2011, while Jews around the world were mourning this tragedy, one palestinian woman who was 92-years-old [...]