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 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel National Security Council deputy chief and the head of the counter-terror branch, Brigadier General (Res.) Itzik Bar, warned Breslov Hasidim that travelling to Uman for Rosh Hashana is a “life-endangering act”. In a press conference held on Sunday concerning the yearly pilgrimage to Uman, Bar said that due to the ongoing […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a tragic accident which occurred very early Monday morning, a young chareidi man from Afula was killed while riding on an electric scooter. Rav Yitzchak Bitton, a 25-year-old father of two, was riding his electric scooter on a central street in Afula at 5:45 AM when he was hit by a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Shin Bet leader Ronen Bar said Sunday said the security agency has concluded that Israel’s political instability and internal discord encourage terror groups and individuals to commit attacks. “From the intelligence that we have read, from the interrogations of attackers we have conducted, and also from many years of familiarity with our […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a new legal precedent, Israel’s Higher Rabbinical Court sent a female get refuser to jail Sunday, after she had refused to accept a get from her husband for the past four years. The woman was arrested by police after locking herself in her home and forcing them to break into the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — R’ Shmuel Katz used to work on the 85th floor of one of the Twin Towers. Every day he would make his way to Manhattan on the subway but was distressed by being forced to sit in the crowded rush hour trains in which many people were dressed in immodest attire. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prof. Manuel Trachtenberg, the director of the Tel Aviv University-based Institute for National Security Studies, reiterated his concern over the density of population in Israel. In an interview with the Yediot Aharonot newspaper which discussed Israel’s population trends and density, Prof. Trachtenberg (72), an economist who has served in many senior government […]