JERUSALEM (VINnews) — On Friday night at around 10:30, Arab terrorists threw petrol bombs into the house of Shimon Hatzadik resident Tal Yeshovayav. Yeshovayav had suffered repeated harassment from his Arab neighbors in the past year and his car had been torched 9 times but the current attack is an escalation and was described as […]

New research suggests the coronavirus can invade and destroy the placenta and lead to stillbirths in infected women. It’s an uncommon outcome for any pregnancy but women with COVID-19 face an elevated risk. Authorities believe vaccination can help prevent these cases. Researchers in 12 countries, including the United States, analyzed placental and autopsy tissue from […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Tel Aviv court has ruled in a closed hearing regarding the two young women from a Gur hasidic family who disappeared from their home after their parents left their Gur community in Ashdod and moved to Bnei Brak. During the court hearing, the judge ascertained that there were no claims of […]

LONDON (VINnews) — The British Board of Deputies, a leading UK Jewish communal group gave a rude welcome to Religious Zionism leader Betzalel Smotrich who arrived in London Wednesday, telling him to “get back on the plane and be remembered as a disgrace forever.” Smotrich tweeted he was in Britain “for a series of meetings […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Netanel Assa is a dedicated United Hatzalah volunteer who is willing to leave everything and race to save lives. Everything? Even his own wedding apparently, which he was on his way to when he received an urgent alert about a toddler choking nearby. Netanel, dressed in his wedding suit and riding to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a Wednesday press conference, the Israeli government announced a 4.4 billion NIS package to counter the recent steep rise in the cost of living. The government measures will include lowering taxes for working families as well as decreases in prices of energy and food. The move is a response to intense […]

TORONTO (AP) — Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood firm against an easing of the country’s COVID-19 restrictions Wednesday in the face of mounting pressure from protesters using trucks to blockade the capital and U.S. border crossings, including the economically vital bridge to Detroit. A growing number of Canadian provinces have moved to lift some of […]

GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization insisted Wednesday that “COVID isn’t finished with us,” appealing for more support to fight the pandemic after his agency reported that new infections fell but virus deaths rose worldwide over the past week. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, launching a new $23 billion campaign to fund WHO’s […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the public controversy over MDA’s donor forms requiring donors to register ‘Parent 1’ and ‘Parent 2’ in place of their father and mother and the refusal of many Israelis to donate blood on such forms,  another Israeli public institution has now made similar forms. The Israeli Fire and […]

LONDON (VINnews) — A South London teenager was jailed for 42 months after sharing a bomb-preparation manual online which he disguised as a guide for the video game Minecraft. After police arrested the youth they also found Nazi memorabilia in his room as well as other terror-related documents, according to a Daily Mail report. 19-year-old […]