JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The US has been brokering talks between Egypt and Saudia Arabia over the transfer of two Red Sea islands to the Saudis. However since the islands sit on the main exit route from the Red Sea towards Africa, the only route Israel has to travel from Eilat, the negotiations require Israel’s agreement […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Shin Bet and Jerusalem Police revealed Tuesday that they had uncovered a terror cell led by Hamas operatives, residents of East Jerusalem with Israeli ID, at the beginning of April. The cell intended to perpetrate terror attacks on Israeli targets in different manners and using different terror squads. The group intended […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials remain perplexed by mysterious cases of severe liver damage in hundreds of young children around the world. The best available evidence points to a fairly common stomach bug that isn’t known to cause liver problems in otherwise healthy kids. That virus was detected in the the blood of stricken […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The dramatic ruling issued by the Jerusalem Magistrates Court Sunday permitting Jewish worship on Temple Mount is making international waves. The ruling, issued just prior to Israel’s 55th celebration of Jerusalem Day marking the capture of East Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, has angered the Jordanian political establishment which sees itself as […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Russia has published a list of 963 government officials and leading Americans who are banned from entering the country, apparently in retaliation for similar moves by Washington since the offensive in Ukraine. The list, published May 21, includes U.S. President Joe Biden, business leaders such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Despite the landmark ruling of Jerusalem Magistrate Court judge Tziyon Saharai permitting Jews to worship and say Shema Yisrael on Temple Mount, police chose to ignore or not to implement the court’s ruling Monday morning. A number of people requested to enter Temple Mount wearing Talis and Tefillin in order to be […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was killed in Tehran on Sunday had planned kidnappings and other attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide, according to unsourced reports in Hebrew media. Col. Hassan Sayad Khodayari was shot five times by two unidentified gunmen in his car […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a landmark ruling which immediately sent shock waves through Israel’s political establishment, a Jerusalem Magistrates Court judge ruled that Jews are entitled to say prayers including Shema and prostrate themselves on Temple Mount, despite the fact that such practices have resulted in arrests and evictions from the precinct in the past. […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The widow of Rabbi Avishai Yechezkel, one of the victims of the shocking terror attack in Bnei Brak less than two months ago, gave birth Friday to a baby boy. The joyous event is tinged with sadness since the baby, orphaned from birth, will never know his father. Rabbi Yechezkel was murdered […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Meretz MK Ghaida Rinawie Zoabi, who bolted the coalition last week claiming that the government was taking nationalist, anti-Arab positions,  said Friday that despite resigning from the coalition, she may still cooperate with the ruling bloc and prevent the fall of the government since “the alternative is worse.” “Of course, I do not […]