JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard announced that he is engaged to be married, less than a year after the death of his wife Esther who had canvassed for his release from prison for many years. Esther died from COVID-19 complications last January after suffering from breast cancer for many years. Pollard will […]

WASHINGTON (Yaakov M / VINnews) — On Wednesday, Senator Rand Paul again grilled Dr. Anthony Fauci in a contentious exchange, with the Republican lawmaker vowing to get to the bottom of conflicts of interest among government health officials. After grilling Fauci about immunology, Paul, himself an MD, blasted the self-proclaimed “man of science” for not […]

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Wednesday that the number of coronavirus deaths worldwide last week was the lowest reported in the pandemic since March 2020, marking what could be a turning point in the years-long global outbreak. At a press briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said […]

BEIJING (AP) — Residents of a city in China’s far western Xinjiang region say they are experiencing hunger, forced quarantines and dwindling supplies of medicine and daily necessities after more than 40 days in a virus lockdown. Hundreds of posts from Ghulja riveted users of Chinese social media last week, with residents sharing videos of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The spotlight focused on Britain’s King Charles has already displayed a number of irritable and erratic behaviors on the part of the king, including getting flustered about a pen leaking ink, complaining that he had written the wrong date and flippantly requesting his valets to remove ink as he signed documents. […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Queen Elizabeth has been eulogized by countless politicians and other leading figures across the globe. But in his tribute to the late monarch in the House of Lords, Baron David Wolfson used a new method of talking about the significance of her death: explaining a pillar of Jewish mysticism. In a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An IDF officer was killed in a shootout with Palestinian terrorists near Jenin early Wednesday morning. The officer was identified as Major Bar Pelech (31), deputy commander of the Nahal reconnaissance unit. Pelech ,a resident of Netanya, had been in the US and received an offer to return and lead the unit, […]

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles County resident with a compromised immune system has died from monkeypox, local health officials announced Monday. It’s believed to be the first U.S. fatality from the disease. The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health announced the cause of death, and a spokesperson said it was confirmed by […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a dramatic attempt to change the status quo on religious affairs just a few weeks before elections, the Israeli government voted Sunday to ratify a proposal by Transport Minister Merav Michaeli to transfer authority over local transportation from the ministry to local councils. The proposal would de facto allow city mayors […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former prime minister Naftali Bennett and Finance Minister Avigdor Liberman spoke out against an agreement between Agudath Yisrael and Degel Hatorah signed on Monday, which included a commitment by Likud leader Netanyahu to equate the budgets of chareidi schools with state school budgets. Liberman wrote that “Bibi is willing to do everything […]