JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Violent clashes broke out during the course of the funeral of Shirin Abu Aqleh, killed in Jenin during crossfire between the IDF and Palestinian terrorists. The body of the journalist was taken from Sheikh Jarrah’s French Hospital amid clashes and altercations between mourners and police securing the procession. The procession continued to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana announced Friday that he is resigning his post and will return to serve as a Yamina MK in the Knesset in order to “help strengthen the coalition.” Kahane’s resignation seems to be a desperate attempt by Yamina to close ranks and prevent further defections from the party. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During a special Knesset session marking Herzl day, the day that Herzl was born, (10th Iyar 5620) Prime Minister Bennett spoke in the Knesset and quoted chareidi rabbis including the 5th rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Sholom Ber Schneersohn, who opposed Herzl’s initiatives. Bennett said that a “prominent chareidi rabbi” wrote in 1900: […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During clashes which broke out at the tomb of Rashbi at Meron Wednesday evening, a number of demonstrators from the Toldos Avraham Yitzchak chasidic group were arrested. Clips of the arrest released to social media have caused an uproar, as they show a policeman brutally hitting and injuring a demonstrator, using unrestrained […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke Tuesday with the widows of the Elad terror victims from Thursday’s terror attack. The widows rebuked Bennett for maintaining his left-leaning government despite the flurry of terror attacks and criticized the dependence on Arabs in the government. The family of Yonatan Chabakuk HyD sharply criticized the government […]

NEW YORK (AP) — More than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses last year, setting another tragic record in the nation’s escalating overdose epidemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated Wednesday. The provisional 2021 total translates to roughly one U.S. overdose death every 5 minutes. It marked a 15% increase from the previous […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Sivan Rahav-Meir who recently spent a year in the US, said that while on a lecture tour in Memphis, she requested to meet Rav Nota Greenblatt, who passed away last week at the age of 96. “They told me that in this city lives one of the last people to have […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The death of Al-Jazeera journalist Shirin Abu Aqleh during a gunfight between the IDF and Palestinian terrorists Wednesday morning has once again thrown the political situation in Israel into uncertainty. The current government cannot muster a majority in the Knesset but may be able to block opposition attempts to disperse the Knesset, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Dov Kaplan, a member of the “committee of five” which has supervised the Meron festivities in recent years, says that the site is not properly prepared for the coming Lag Ba’Omer. Rabbi Kaplan says that removing the tents on the mountain which are far away from the tomb does nothing to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of an Israeli military operation against terrorists in Jenin, a prominent Al-Jazeera journalist has been killed, apparently in crossfire between the two sides. Al-Jazeera correspondent Shirin Abu Aqleh, 51, a veteran commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, was shot in the head while covering the Israeli army operation in the […]