JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Arab hooligans rioted late Monday night in the city of Lod, burning cars, shuls, police vans and public buildings. The rioters also waved Palestinian flags, uprooted road signs and attacked Jewish neighborhoods. At one point the Arabs tried to enter the Chashmonaim Jewish neighborhood. Despite frantic requests from residents, police did not […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rocket salvos continued to slam into Israel Tuesday morning after a night of attacks on the Western Negev, Ashdod and Ashkelon. In one of the attacks early Tuesday morning, a family of four were all injured by a direct hit on their house in Ashkelon. The father suffered a serious head injury […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans set a record for pandemic-era air travel, then broke it again over the Mother’s Day holiday weekend. The Transportation Security Administration said that slightly more than 1.7 million people were screened at airport checkpoints on Sunday, the highest number since March 2020, when travel was collapsing because of the coronavirus outbreak. […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators on Monday expanded the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine to children as young as 12, offering a way to protect the nation’s adolescents before they head back to school in the fall and paving the way for them to return to more normal activities. Shots could begin as soon as […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — With summer coming and COVID-19 vaccines being deemed safe for children as young as 12, some camps are talking about the possibility of a mask-free summer for vaccinated campers. But one Jewish camp being planned for the summer is taking a different approach: barring any vaccinated camper or staff from attending […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian terrorists and wounded a third after the men opened fire on a base in Samaria on Friday, the latest in a series of violent confrontations amid soaring tensions in Jerusalem. The terrorists were believed to be planning a Dozens of Palestinians in an east Jerusalem […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — UJA-Federation of New York announced $200,000 in grants to four organizations working on COVID relief efforts in India. The grants are focused on providing equipment and relief in hard-to-reach and especially vulnerable communities in the country, where a second wave of infections has overwhelmed hospitals and crematoria. The funding will include […]

GENEVA (AP) — Several world leaders on Thursday praised the U.S. move to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines for poor nations by suspending patent protections on the shots. But it wasn’t clear if that would actually lead to the measures being lifted — and what it would mean if they were. Activists and international institutions […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Eytan Stibbe will be only the second Israeli to go to outer space. The former Israeli fighter pilot, who shot down four Syrian planes during the first Lebanon war, served under the first Israeli astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and was among those who founded the Ramon Foundation in memory of Ilan Ramon, who […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A rare bronze oil lamp, the first of its kind to be found in Israel, has been discovered recently buried within the foundations of a building dating to the Roman period immediately after the destruction of the Second Temple (1st-2nd century CE). Archaeologists believe the lamp was buried there deliberately as a […]