JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid will host his counterparts from the US, UAE, Bahrain, Morocco and Egypt today, in a historic summit at the Negev kibbutz of Sde Boker. This is the first time that a summit has taken place in the remote region where David Ben-Gurion chose to live his last […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As coronavirus infections rise in some parts of the world, experts are watching for a potential new COVID-19 surge in the U.S. — and wondering how long it will take to detect. Despite disease monitoring improvements over the last two years, they say, some recent developments don’t bode well: —As more […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an amazing story of determination in the face of adversity, a Ukrainian refugee whose house was bombed by Russians and whose husband is serving on the front line was the winner of the Jerusalem marathon Friday. Valentian Verzka (32) escaped the war zone of Mariupol in the Ukraine with her 11-year-old […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The US State Department has offered a grant of up to $987,654 for projects that include reporting human rights violations by Israel, according to a Jerusalem Post report. The new grant raises concern about the potential for organizations seeking boycotts, sanctions and law tribunals against Israel to use the grant to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A rare archaeological discovery on Mount Eival has shed light on the biblical period and proved a hotly contested fact – that the Jewish nation did in fact speak and write Hebrew 3,200 years ago at the time when they entered the land of Israel. The rare finding, a folded lead panel, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A new genizah (archive) with rare ancient Jewish documents was discovered in the Cairo Jewish cemetery last month, but a report by Israeli Arab affairs correspondent Roi Kais reveals that employees from the Egyptian Antiquities Authority arrived at the cemetery this week and began emptying the genizah, despite the vehement opposition of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of Tuesday’s horrific terror attack in Beersheva in which four people were murdered, a lot of Israelis are querying how a terrorist who had been found guilty of ISIS membership was walking free on Israel’s streets without any surveillance. Many have targeted the judge who released the terrorist, Mohammad […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — As an Orthodox Jewish man, each morning Tzvi Arieli wraps his arm and forehead with tefillin, the black leather straps that connect two small boxes filled with verses from the Torah. But Arieli makes exceptions. “If I need to shoot some Russians, timing is really important. I might not be able […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Russian soldier fighting in Ukraine allegedly surrendered his tank to Ukrainian military forces in exchange for $10,000, according to a statement by Victor Andrusiv, adviser to Ukrainian Interior Minister Denys Monastyrsky. Andrusiv wrote on Facebook Tuesday that a member of the Russian forces – whom he identified with the pseudonym […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The murderous attack in Beersheva on Tuesday afternoon which claimed the lives of four Israeli citizens has shocked the country to the core. Despite a spate of terrorist attacks in recent weeks in Jerusalem and the advent of Ramadan which usually brings more shrill anti-Israel rhetoric, the last place where terror was […]