JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF forces as well as Shin Bet operatives and police units collaborated Monday in an arrest operation in Shechem in which the terrorists suspected of murdering Staff Sergeant Ido Baruch were apprehended. Baruch was conducting a security patrol near the community of Shavei Shomron when he was shot and killed on October […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A stormy session took place Monday morning in the Knesset’s law committee, as the coalition brought its controversial judicial reforms to vote in the committee. Opposition MKs climbed on tables, sang “We have no other country” and tried to disturb proceedings in other ways, shouting and heckling until they were removed from […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A family who have been outed as missionaries in Phoenix, Arizona and other places in the US recently arrived in Israel under a different name and settled in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Nahlaot. The family dresses in traditional chareidi clothes, call themselves by the name Isaacson, and their son was even given […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —  In a televised speech, President Isaac Herzog made what he termed “a special address to the nation,” saying that Israel is “in fateful days.” Speaking with hands shaking with emotion, Herzog says he has been working in recent weeks to seek a “broad agreement” on the government’s contentious proposals to overhaul the […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — In this riveting yet terrifying clip, Senator Rand Paul asks Wendy Sherman, Deputy Secretary of State, if the State Department funds coronavirus research in China. Sherman said she “does not believe so but did not know and needed to check.” Paul then went on a tirade, explaining to Sherman that the U.S. […]

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 […]