JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Gerer Rebbe, Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, has been diagnosed with coronavirus after returning from the wedding of his granddaughter in the US. The 82-year-old rebbe had received his booster shot in the US but 10 days later he felt weakness and high fever and a doctor was called in to attend […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Sayed Sadaat, a former government minister in Afghanistan now works as a pizza deliverer in the German town of Leipzig – and he’s even proud of it. “I like my current job, because as I’m new here I can explore Leipzig with my cycling,” Sayed Sadaat told Israeli television broadcaster Kan […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli athletes have taken seven Olympic medals at the Tokyo Paralympics so far, including four gold medals. At the same time they have succeeded in breaking four world records in swimming events. The latest medalists are Israeli swimmers Ami Omer Dadaon, who won gold in the Men’s 200m. freestyle and Mark Malyar, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Researchers at Tel Aviv University achieved a major breakthrough in the battle against cancer by successfully completing the first 3D-bioprinting of an entire active tumor. The researchers succeeded in creating a 3D print of glioblastoma — the deadliest type of brain cancer — from human glioblastoma tissues which contain all components of the malignant […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Delta Airlines Pilot Alexander Kahn described to CNN his special feelings on transporting a group of Afghan refugees from Germany to the US. Kahn is the son of a Holocaust survivor who came from Buchenwald to the US with nothing but the clothes on his back and succeeded in studying to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — IDF planes attacked targets in the Gaza strip in response to the continuing spate of incendiary balloons which have been causing fires and damage in Israel. The planes attacked a terror tunnel as well as a training post used for making weapons and training terrorists to fight Israel. In an official statement […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Due to the meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and President Biden being delayed from Thursday to Friday after the attack in Kabul, the Israeli prime minister could not return to Israel in time for Shabbos. Local Chabad representatives in Washington managed to set up a makeshift synagogue in the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a tragic hit-and-run accident in the early hours of Friday morning, Naftali Syewitz, a 20-year-old yeshiva student from Modi’in Illit, was killed and two of his friends were injured, one moderately and one lightly. Naftali z’l was born in Migdal Ha’Emek to his father Rabbi Rephael Syewitz. A number of years […]

WASHINGTON (AP) – The U.S. is projected to see nearly 100,000 more COVID-19 deaths between now and Dec. 1, according to the nation’s most closely watched forecasting model. But health experts say that toll could be cut in half if nearly everyone wore a mask in public spaces. In other words, what the coronavirus has […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Israeli citizen was stabbed to death in the Moroccan city of Tangier on Wednesday, according to a report by ZAKA, the Israeli rescue group which was working to bring the body of the victim to Israel for burial. Reports in Morocco say the victim, identified as the 36-year-old owner of a […]