In peer-reviewed study, scientists from Weizmann Institute find 4 common sugar substitutes alter gut bacteria, and say 2 of them may actually harm ability to process glucose

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of a number of tragedies which have occurred during the Bein Hazmanim (recess) period between Tisha B’Av and Elul, the Mir yeshiva in Jerusalem which is currently the largest yeshiva in the world has decided to open the Elul zman on Thursday instead of Sunday. The rosh yeshiva, Rabbi […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Starting on Wednesday, Ben-Gurion International Airport will reinstate a service that most travelers probably didn’t miss—PCR testing for people entering Israel. The tests are being funded by the government and are voluntary, at least for now. The purpose of the program is to make PCR testing easily accessible for people entering the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Tuesday the Religious Zionist party will choose its candidates for the coming election. After Itamar Ben-Gvir broke off negotiations with the Religious Zionist party, leader Betzalel Smotrich seeks to give the party a more modern and less extreme religious appearance in order to attract voters from the former Yamina party. Since […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eliyahu Cohen, a great-grandson of Rabbi Chaim Kanievski Zts’l and Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman Zts’l, has been remanded in custody on suspicion of establishing an “underground group”, including preparing makeshift explosives in his yeshiva room. Cohen, a resident of Bnei Brak, was arrested nearly a month ago on suspicion of using weaponry […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — MK Itamar Ben Gvir has selected Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, son of Tzfat chief rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, for the No. 4 slot on his Otzma Yehudit party’s electoral slate. Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu, who heads the Organization of Community Rabbis, a rabbinical group, is also the grandson of Rabbi Mordechai Eliyahu, a former chief […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shalom Cohen, who passed away Sunday night at the age of 91, was the undisputed leader of the Sephardic Torah world during the past nine years since the passing of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef. Rabbi Cohen was born in Jerusalem in 1931. His father, Rabbi Efrayim Cohen, was the head of the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The director of the Shaarei Tzedek hospital, Prof. Ofer Marin, visited Rabbi Yehoshua Hersh Glick, a 46-year-old father of nine from Williamsburg who was very seriously injured in last Saturday night’s terror attack at David’s tomb. Glick was hit by bullets in the neck and underwent emergency treatment at the trauma unit. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Last Monday evening just after 8:00 p.m., a man approached a United Hatzalah ATV helping an elderly person traverse the sand by the Sanz Beach in Netanya and told the volunteer EMT driver that his son had drowned in the water. The EMT alerted the organization’s dispatch to the incident but was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shalom Cohen, the Rosh Yeshiva of Porat Yosef and leader of the Sephardic Torah community in Israel, is in critical condition after a leg infection which spread to the rest of his body. Rabbi Cohen is sedated and respirated at the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem. On Sunday a name […]