Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. The move is a reaction to the severe hospital staffing shortages and crushing caseloads that the omicron variant is causing. […]

In a medical first, doctors transplanted a pig heart into a patient in a last-ditch effort to save his life and a Maryland hospital said Monday that he’s doing well three days after the highly experimental surgery. While it’s too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Aviran Yael fetched rapid antigen kits from a pharmacy in Tel Aviv’s busy center, placed them in the light blue bag strapped to the back of his motorbike and headed off to deliver them. With that, Yael on Monday joined a growing army of couriers toting Wolt delivery boxes around […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a landmark decision Sunday, the Israeli government’s ministerial committee adopted a bill submitted by MK’s Idit Silman (Yemina) and Eitan Ginsburg (Yesh Atid) as well as by Moshe Gafni (UTJ0 and Yinon Azulai (Shas) to unify the emergency response hotlines in Israel. Currently the hotlines are separate, with different numbers for […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) released data regarding the quality of life for Israelis in cities over 100,000 residents. Kfar Saba ranked first on the survey while Jerusalem, the capital city, ranked last. The survet evaluated responses to 52 quality of life indices across different categories in 16 major cities […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Chess.com, a site boasting 77 million users worldwide has ranked 18-year-old Alireza Firouzja as second in the world chess rankings for 2021. Firouzja was born in Iran but elected to renounce his Iranian citizenship in 2019 after the Iranian government forbade him to compete against Israelis. At 16, Firouzja became the […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — The Torah world was plunged into mourning with the passing of Rebbetzin Temi Kamenetsky, the wife of Philadelphia Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Shmuel Kamenetsky. In the last few days, Rebbetzin Kamenetsky’s condition had deteriorated and many tefilos were made for her recovery but on Sunday night she passed away. Rebbetzin Kamenetsky was […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An interesting ceremony took place last week in Petach Tikva, demonstrating the fact that Israel’s Yisrael Beitenu party may not be so far from religion as imagined. The ceremony took place at the Shuvu school in the city, a school founded as part of a network of Torah schools for Russian children […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A Turkish farmer fitted his cows stuck in a cowshed with virtual reality (VR) glasses to make them think they were outside in the pasture. The farmer bought the headsets after a study suggested that pleasant scenes make cows happier and this helps them produce more milk. The ploy paid off […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Gershon Edelstein, the 98-year-old Rosh Yeshiva of Ponovezh, has contracted coronavirus, according to a report from his associates. The Rosh Yeshiva was tested for coronavirus after his body temperature rose and the test revealed that he was positive. Rabbi Edelstein’s infection was surprising since he has been extremely careful since the […]