LAS VEGAS (AP) — Attendance at the CES gadget show in Las Vegas fell more than 70% compared to its previous in-person event two years ago, its organizer said Saturday. The Consumer Technology Association said that more than 45,000 people attended the multi-day event on the Las Vegas Strip that ended Friday. More than 170,000 […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — A truck and a van collided on a narrow two-lane highway in the occupied West Bank on Thursday, killing seven Palestinians and injuring another three, according to Israeli medics. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Friday a day of mourning for the victims, who he described as “martyrs of trying to make a […]

NASSAU COUNTY (VINnews) — Newly appointed Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has decided to leave the issue of school mask mandates in the hands of the schools, in direct defiance of recent guidance from New York Gov. Hochul. Blakeman signed three executive orders on Thursday in regard to masking, with one of them handing control […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian terrorist who had opened fire on them during an arrest raid in the Samaria city of Shechem early Thursday, the Israeli military said. The military said it was carrying out an operation to arrest a wanted suspect when armed men began firing on […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli Deputy Economic Affairs Minister Yair Golan once again caused a political uproar Thursday. Golan, who in the past has compared Israel’s current behavior to pre-war Nazi Germany, attacked the Chomesh settlers who have stayed in the community after the attack in which Yehuda Dimentman HyD was murdered and termed them “subhumans” […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Georgia authorities have launched an investigation into  seemingly systematic ballot harvesting which occurred during the state’s 2020 general election and the runoff election for the U.S. senate on Jan.5 2021, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger confirmed Tuesday. Georgia law strictly prohibits third-party activists from picking up and delivering ballots on […]

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A blood test may one day be able to predict whether someone who is pregnant will develop a serious blood pressure disorder months before symptoms show up. Preeclampsia happens in around 1 of 20 pregnancies, usually in the third trimester, and can cause organ damage, stroke and preterm birth. Pregnancy-related high […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a long letter published after his meeting with Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, Rabbi Tzvi Tau, head of the Har Hamor yeshiva and the most prominent student of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook, presented his opinion about the Walder affair. Rabbi Tau wrote privately to a person questioning him: In response to your question […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli security officials agreed Tuesday not to renew the detention of administrative detainee Hisham Abu Hawash who had been on hunger strike for the past 141 days. In return Hawash agreed to stop his hunger strike. The International Committee of the Red Cross, whose medical teams visited Abu Hawash over the weekend, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A 14-year saga including a dramatic manhunt reached its conclusion this week as a Beit Shemesh resident finally received a get from her recalcitrant husband. The woman, Orly Vital, met her husband R while in high school and the two married later and had four children. However the marriage soured and Orly […]