JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israel is in the midst of a national obesity epidemic, Israeli healthcare workers are warning. “We’re in the midst of a global epidemic that has reached Israel—the obesity epidemic,” said Dr. Oyero, a specialist in family medicine and an obesity doctor at Maccabi Health Services, according to Ynet. “Obesity is a chronic, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Twitter owner Elon Musk has complimented Israel’s official Twitter account after it tweeted mockingly: “We would very much like to be excluded from this narrative,” in response to Kanye West’s tweet saying “Shalom : )”. The frosty Israeli response to West’s return to social media reminded him that using Hebrew could not […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s laboring coalition negotiations appear to have made some progress Monday, as Religious Zionism leader Betzalel Smotrich agreed to relinquish his demand for the Defense Ministry and become finance minister in the emerging government. Smotrich had demanded the Defense Ministry, which would have given him significant control over Judea and Samaria and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Israeli premier Naftali Bennett published a Facebook post in which he thanked Chabad, stating that he and his family are religious in their merit. Bennett wrote: Thank you Chabad! The annual conference of Chabad emissaries is taking place now and this is an opportunity for me and my family to say […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Workers at Ben-Gurion airport rubbed their eyes in amazement as two apparently chareidi women disembarked from a flight from Georgia on Friday evening, well after Shabbat entered. The workers’ suspicions were alerted by the two women, dressed modestly and wearing headscarves but arriving on Shabbat After border control officers checked their passports […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of Israel’s coalition negotiations, UTJ and Religious Zionism have demanded that the agreements with Likud will include a declaration that gender separation at public events and public services will not be deemed discrimination. Israel’s current discrimination law allows for separation of genders in education and on beaches but not […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the loss of Rabbi Shraga Feivel Cohen Zts’l, a prominent world-renowned Posek and author of many seforim including the seminal set of seforim Badei Hashulchan, a form of Mishna Berura on major aspects of Yoreh Deah. Rabbi Cohen suffered respiratory stress on Sunday morning and suddenly collapsed. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a speech at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, former US president Donald Trump claimed that if he had won the 2020 election he would have brokered more peace agreements between Israel and Arab countries. Trump said that “maybe all” remaining Arab countries would have made […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Disgraced Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced Friday to more than 11 years in prison for duping investors in the failed startup that promised to revolutionize blood testing but instead made her a symbol of Silicon Valley ambition that veered into deceit. The sentence imposed by U.S. District Judge Edward Davila […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — During the course of the Manama Dialogue Conference taking place in Bahrain, Britain’s Foreign Minister James Cleverly issued a sharp criticism of Iran. Cleverly accused Iran, situated just across the Persian Gulf from Manama, of “spreading bloodshed” from the Middle East to Kyiv. Cleverly vowed that Britain will continue to work […]