NEW YORK (VINnews) — A new vaccine mandate requiring all Canadian truckers travelling in and out of Canada to be vaccinated, has taken effect this week. In the coming days a similar mandate will require US truckers going in and out of Canada to be vaccinated against COVID as well. The new requirements have led […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The defeat of the draft bill Monday evening was due in major part to a concerted effort by the opposition but also to the defection of one of the Arab members of the coalition, Meretz MK Jada Rinawi-Zoabi. Zoabi voted against the bill despite her party’s agreement to support the bill. The […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The possibility of a plea bargain agreement between former prime minister Netanyahu and the prosecution has caused significant political unrest in Israel. If Netanyahu will step down from the leadership of the Likud in return for signing a plea bargain arrangement which leaves him with public service but prevents him from holding […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —When Adi Blau felt a searing pain in her shoulder during a wedding which took place in the Shaar Binyamin industrial complex north of Jerusalem, she did not know what had happened. She thought that she had pulled a muscle and then saw a small injury on her back and thought that she […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Torrential rains over the weekend in Israel have led to flooding in many of the lower areas in the country. In many cities streets and even cars were submerged in water as the intense rains continued unabated from Friday. The Ganei Aviv neighborhood in Lod, home to some 18,000 people, was cut […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The continuing contacts between the lawyers of former prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit have led to significant progress in the effort to reach a plea bargain agreement over Netanyahu’s legal indictments. Previously it was reported that the issue separating the sides focused on moral turpitude. The prosecution is demanding […]

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials on Friday encouraged more Americans to wear the kind of N95 or KN95 masks used by health-care workers to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Those kinds of masks are considered better at filtering the air. But they were in short supply previously, and Centers for Disease Control […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Chaim Kanievski Shlita has sent a personal condolence letter to Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky who is sitting shiva in Philadelphia after his rebbetzin passed away this week at the age of 92. Rabbi Chaim wrote the letter in his own handwriting and submitted it to Rabbi Yeshayahu Graucher, who travelled from Israel […]

There’s more evidence that one of the world’s most common viruses may set some people on the path to developing multiple sclerosis. Multiple sclerosis is a potentially disabling disease that occurs when immune system cells mistakenly attack the protective coating on nerve fibers, gradually eroding them. The Epstein-Barr virus has long been suspected of playing […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has stopped the Biden administration from enforcing a requirement that employees at large businesses be vaccinated against COVID-19 or undergo weekly testing and wear a mask on the job. At the same time, the court is allowing the administration to proceed with a vaccine mandate for most health care […]