NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Rumanian court released on Tuesday a 38-year-old Bnei Brak resident who had been detained for two months and had been under threat of extradition to Belarus for economic crimes. Roman Dorfman, a worker at Ben Gurion airport, was arrested two months ago on the way to his mother’s funeral in […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — President Herzog devoted a significant portion of his speech at the national remembrance day ceremony for Israel’s fallen soldiers and civilians to four soldiers, all of them named Ehud, whom he said typified Israel’s story of comradeship and mutual responsibility which continues from generation to generation. Speaking at the Western Wall ceremony, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a horrifying road accident which occurred Tuesday in the northern Negev near Ashdod, a truck overturned on a number of cars, crushing two of the cars and killing 3 people including a mother of 10 and a mother of 8. Scene of the fatal accident The dead people were identified as […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Dozens of Israeli families who lost loved ones to war and terror have expressed anger at this year’s gift from the country’s Defense Ministry ahead of Memorial Day—a “peace clock”— due to what they claim is its lack of Jewish content. They have announced their intention to return it. Each year, on […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — After a two-year hiatus due to coronavirus in which there were hardly any flights to the Hungarian city of Kerestir where the holy Rabbi Yeshaya is buried, tens of thousands are expected to arrive at his tomb and mark the yahrzeit (anniversary of his death) which falls on Wednesday. Due to […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Israeli citizen was killed by Russian shelling in Mariupol, Ukraine, according to a Foreign Ministry statement Tuesday. Sergei Boltinsky, 49, was reportedly killed on March 24th while making his way to one of the synagogues in Mariupol in order to enquire on how to evacuate himself and his family; his […]

LONDON (VINnews) — The London-based Shomrim organization operates a proactive neighbourhood watch in the Jewish Center of Stamford Hill, North London and supports victims of hate crime.  Recently the organization has reported a marked increase in antisemitic attacks. Last Saturday night two 11-year-old chasidic boys were accosted by local teenagers outside a supermarket. One of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released data about Israel’s population prior to the country’s 74th anniversary. The data reveal that the Jewish population of Israel now tops 7 million, representing a tenfold increase from the outset of the state in 1948 when the Jewish population numbered about 670,000. Currently the population […]

HOLON, Israel (AP) — Five-year-old Karina Andreiko wasn’t hurt in the war in Ukraine. In some ways, she was saved because of it. Stressed by the long search for why her daughter was smaller than other kids — and by the war with Russia — Karina’s mother last month sought help from an Israeli field […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov caused outrage Sunday after he stated that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Jewishness does not negate his Nazism since Adolf Hitler also “had Jewish blood.” Lavrov’s scandalous anti-semitic jibe was condemned by Jewish officials worldwide. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid slammed Lavrov’s “unforgivable, scandalous statement” and added “this is […]