NEW YORK (VINnews) — Israeli search and rescue teams continued to work feverishly against the clock over the weekend in an attempt to find more survivors of the deadly earthquake in Turkey. The teams have succeeded in saving 19 Turkish citizens, with the last such successful operation occurring more than 120 hours after the earthquake, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — With all of the good intentions of the new government in Israel, and even if it does succeed in curtailing the immoderate power of the courts, the litmus test of its success will be if it provides Israelis with a sense of security. In this task it has so far failed, due […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In an interview with Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs Op-Ed columnist, US President Joe Biden responded to the judicial reform planned by the Netanyahu government in Israel. “The genius of American democracy and Israeli democracy is that they are both built on strong institutions, on checks and balances, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of the Shabbos, a third victim of the brutal ramming attack which occurred in Jerusalem Friday was declared dead. 8-year-old Asher Paley was critically injured in the attack and died of his injuries on Shabbos. His 6-year-old brother Yaakov Yisrael died on Friday and was buried minutes before Shabbos. […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Benny Chukrun, speaking in Hebrew on a wind-whipped day outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital, had a message for his fellow protesters. “We have a special role in Washington. We have access to the Jewish opinion leaders in the United States,” he said at a rally on Sunday opposing […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) —  A Syrian boy filmed himself as he was stuck under the rubble after the earthquake which struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. “I don’t know if I’ll die or stay alive,” the boy says in the video which circulated online on Wednesday. “I don’t know how to describe the feeling of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Members of the IDF Home Front Command rescue delegation to Turkey have been working non-stop in bitterly cold conditions and in a race against time to save victims trapped in the rubble. Lt. Col. Doron Ziv, a member of the delegation, spoke to Israel radio channel 103 FM’s Nissim Mishal and Guy […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview with Israel radio’s Esti Perez, Ezra Janoudi, a Jew living in the city of Antakya described the terrifying moments of the earthquake which destroyed his home. Janoudi said that “I hope everything will be OK. I lost everything, I don’t have Tefillin or a Tehillim.” Janoudi said that he […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF was set to send a further delegation Wednesday morning to the stricken areas in Southern Turkey. After a 150-man search and rescue team arrived Tuesday morning and assisted in rescue efforts, the second delegation will consist of medical and logistics corps and is set to establish a field hospital to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In dramatic footage from the Turkish towns devastated by Sunday night’s earthquake, IDF search and rescue personnel from the 150-man delegation named “Olive Branches” which arrived Tuesday can be seen assisting and rescuing victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings. The search and rescue teams used all the technological means at their […]