JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three youths aged 16, 17 and 18 were killed and two other people moderately injured after a late-night collision between two cars near the community of Beit Hillel in the northern Galilee. Initial police investigations of the accident revealed that the three youths, Uri Malul, Ariel Stern and Daniel Porat were returning […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In what has been viewed by many as a media gimmick, former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak was photographed by the Mishpacha magazine wearing Tefillin. At the end of a stormy interview with journalist Aryeh Erlich, who said that “there were almost no agreements in the stormy and even fiery […]

BERLIN (AP) — Travelers whose package tours were ruined by the imposition of restrictions to combat the COVID-19 pandemic may be entitled to at least a partial refund, the European Union’s highest court said Thursday. The European Court of Justice weighed in after being asked for its opinion by a court in Germany. The Munich […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Adolfo Kaminsky, the French-Jewish photographer, forger, smuggler and resistance fighter who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust as part of the French underground, died at 97 in his home in Paris on Monday. Kaminsky’s improbable and heroic story was detailed in a book by his daughter, written in his voice, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli’s stormy political climate has led to five elections within three years. Yet despite the deadlock finally being emphatically broken, with a 64-man fully right-wing coalition for the first time in three decades, the tempo of the political rhetoric has merely grown more acerbic, more raucous and more incendiary. The storm was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of a business trip to Italy, a former Mossad agent collapsed and fell unconscious on a train trip, losing his pulse and breathing. A local paramedic fought for his life on the platform and on the way to a hospital in Rome and after succeeding in stabilizing his condition […]

JERUSALEM(VINnews) — Professor Asa Kasher, a philosopher who authored the IDF’s ethics code, has been one of the most outspoken critics of the chareidi community. In recent months, Kasher, a grandson of Rabbi Mendel Kasher, has stepped up his verbal abuse, terming chareidim a ‘mutation’ of the original chareidi community. In a Sunday interview Kasher […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ba’adani, the leader of the Sephardic Council of Torah sages and spiritual mentor of the Shas party, passed away Wednesday morning in Tel Hashomer-Sheba hospital at the age of 94. Rabbi Ba’adani had been sick over the last year with lung cancer and spent a number of periods in hospital. […]

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The director of the World Health Organization’s Europe office said Tuesday that the agency sees “no immediate threat” for the European region from a COVID-19 outbreak in China, but more information is needed. China is battling a nationwide outbreak of the coronavirus after abruptly easing restrictions. Hans Kluge said that, based […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A journalist and research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), has called out television host Christiane Amanpour after she implied on her television program there is a comparison between the actions of Israel and those of the Syrian regime. The analyst, David Litman, was referring […]