JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an ironic twist of fate, an Israeli Arab woman received a kidney transplanted from the body of Yigal Yehoshua, the 56-year-old Israeli who died of his wounds after being stoned by Israeli Arab terrorists in Lod. Nivin Awis, daughter of Randa Awis, a resident of the Beit Tzafafa suburb of Jerusalem, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The two victims in the bleacher collapse at the new Karlin center in Givat Zeev are 13-year-old Meir Gloiberman and 23-year-old Mordechai Binyamin Rubinstein, both of Beitar Illit. The two were brought to burial after the Shavuos holiday. 42 people injured in the incident are still hospitalized in Hadassah-Ein Kerem hospital, 6 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF has used many different tactics in recent days in order to outwit Hamas. The policy of “roof knocking” does not mean that terrorists are necessarily safe wherever they are, as has been proved by the targeted killings of senior Hamas commanders, rocket engineers and cyber experts, which have eroded Hamas’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a move to send the country back toward pre-pandemic life, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people, allowing them to safely stop wearing masks inside in most places. The new guidance still calls for wearing masks in crowded indoor settings like […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The vandalism being perpetrated by Israeli Arabs against Jews continued unabated Wednesday night despite increased police and border police presence in mixed Jewish-Arab towns. Early Thursday morning, Arab hooligans set on fire a number of Jewish cars on Rechov Ahavas Yisrael in Haifa’s Shikkun Vizhnitz. The fire spread towards one of the […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health advisers endorsed use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine in kids as young as 12 on Wednesday — just as planned new guidelines say it’s OK for people of any age to get a coronavirus shot at the same time as other needed vaccinations. The shots will let kids safely attend camps […]

GENEVA (AP) — A panel of independent experts who reviewed the World Health Organization’s response to the coronavirus pandemic says the U.N. health agency should be granted “guaranteed rights of access” in countries to investigate emerging outbreaks, a contentious idea that would give it more powers and require member states to give up some of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the latest developments in Israel’s Guarding Of the Walls (Shomer Hachomot) operation, Hamas fired anti-tank missiles Wednesday morning towards kibbutz Netiv Ha’asara adjacent to the Gaza border, directly hitting a jeep travelling there. 1 person is reported dead in the incident and 2 more were injured. When medics came to treat […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Fewer Americans are reluctant to get a COVID-19 vaccine than just a few months ago, but questions about side effects and how the shots were tested still hold some back, according to a new poll that highlights the challenges at a pivotal moment in the U.S. vaccination campaign. Just 11% of people […]

LAS VEGAS (AP) – A gene therapy that makes use of an unlikely helper, the AIDS virus, gave a working immune system to 48 babies and toddlers who were born without one, doctors reported Tuesday. Results show that all but two of the 50 children who were given the experimental therapy in a study now […]