JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the perpetual search by Israeli news outlets for stories which they can use to portray the chareidi community in a negative light, one of the touchier issues is feminine segregation. Israeli law prohibits such segregation both in public events and on public transport, and this includes making separate seating arrangements on […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel released Sunday the Jordanian member of parliament Imad al-Adwan, who was suspected of smuggling weapons into the country via the Allenby crossing. Al-Adwan was found with a huge cache of weapons as well as bars of gold after he attempted to use his diplomatic immunity to cross without being checked by […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — There has been no official response to the chareidi boycott of Angel’s bakery due to its director Omer Bar-Lev demonstrating outside the home of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein. The boycott, started on social media on Thursday, gained traction when leading chareidi and religious Zionist rabbis came out in support of the boycott and […]

LONDON (VINnews) — In a ceremony marked by the pomp and ceremony which typify British pageantry, King Charles III was formally crowned King of England earlier today at Westminster Abbey. England declared several celebratory measures for the occasion, including a bank holiday, a special medal for the military and emergency personnel participating, and the publication of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Two terrorists who carried out a shooting attack in Samaria this week were eliminated Saturday morning in an IDF operation in the Nur A-Shams refugee camp near Tulkarm. The two Islamic Jihad terrorists, Hamza Qaryush and Samar El-Shafi, had opened fire on Israeli cars near the community of Avnei Hefetz south of the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A grassroots boycott started against Angels’ bakery has encompassed the entire chareidi community in Israel as well as many traditional people. The boycott was started after Angel’s directorate chairman, former Public Security Minister Omer Bar-Lev, protested on Thursday morning outside the home of the head of Ponovezh Yeshiva, Rabbi Gershon Edelstein. The […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview with Mishpacha magazine, Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, head of the United Torah Judaism party, warned that Prime Minister Netanyahu’s coalition could collapse if a law that exempts members of the chareidi community from military service does not pass, according to a Times of Israel report. The remarks […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rummaging through some items she had kept on her camera’s memory pad, Devorah Paley, the mother of Asher Menahem and Yaakov Yisrael HyD who were murdered in a ramming attack in February, came across a short clip of her two sons which comforted and delighted her. מסר מרגש לימי ספירת העומר: משפחת […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli security forces eliminated early Thursday morning the terrorists who murdered Lucy Dee and her two daughters Maya and Rina on April 7. The terrorists, members of the Hamas terror group, were eliminated during a firefight with security forces in Shechem. At the same time the IDF also eliminated a senior assistant […]

Social media fad has driven up demand, raising prices for snacks and prompting retailers to limit sales per person; ministry suggests cucumber rolls instead