JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli television anchor Tamar Ish-Shalom shared a picture which puzzled her on her Twitter account. Apparently Ish-Shalom’s children had gone to the local clinic and an Arab nurse gave them stickers with images of chareidi children performing mitzvos. Ish Shalom found it amusing that the nurse had given secular children pictures of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Ethiopian Airlines plane landed at an airport that is still under construction in Zambia, “by mistake,” according to a report by the airline and government officials. The cargo plane touched down last week at the as yet unfinished airport in Zambia’s northern Copperbelt province, which is currently served by the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Naim and Sabah Fatteo have worked in their Ramat Gan hairdresser shop for nearly 70 years, and even coronavirus did not deter them from opening – albeit in clandestine manner – for their devoted customers. Naim is 90 and Sabah 84 but they have no intention of stopping their lifelong profession even […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Drug giant Pfizer and its partner in developing the first COVID-19 vaccine that received emergency authorization in the U.S. want to allow more adolescents to receive the vaccine. New York-based Pfizer and BioNTech SE of Germany have asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to expand the emergency use authorization for […]

ROME (AP) — Italian prosecutors have accused a top World Health Organization official of lying to them about a spiked U.N. report into Italy’s coronavirus response, revealing private communications Friday that are likely to embarrass the U.N. agency. Prosecutors in Bergamo placed Dr. Ranieri Guerra, WHO’s assistant director general, under investigation for allegedly making false […]

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Federal health officials say it’s safe to continue administering Johnson & Johnson shots at three vaccination sites in North Carolina that had an increase in reports of adverse reactions on Thursday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the all-clear late Thursday and again Friday morning. Four of the more […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Prince Philip Mountbatten, husband of Britain’s Queen Elizabeth and her consort for the nearly 70 years of her reign, has passed away in Windsor Castle at the age of 99, according to an announcement by Buckingham Palace. The Duke of Edinburgh, as he was officially known, had been by his wife’s […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu mentioned in his Holocaust Remembrance day speech the story of Bella Freund, the chareidi daughter of a Holocaust survivor who could not bring herself to vaccinate due to the horrors her mother had experienced as a child who was part of the experiments conducted by the infamous Dr. […]

MIAMI (AP) — A South Florida doctor who died about two weeks after he got Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine died in a manner that has been categorized as natural, an official with the medical examiner’s office said Wednesday. Dr. Gregory Michael died from a condition that can cause internal bleeding and there is no medical certainty […]

NEW YORK (JTA) – Pfizer halted a shipment of 700,000 COVID vaccine doses to Israel, alleging that the country has not paid for a previous shipment of 2.5 million doses. The Jerusalem Post reported Monday that the shipment was supposed to arrive this past Sunday but was indefinitely delayed pending payment. Israel paid for its […]