SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom on Wednesday encouraged schools to resume in-person education next year, starting with the youngest students, and promised $2 billion in state aid to promote coronavirus testing, increased ventilation of classrooms and personal protective equipment. The recommendation was driven by increasing evidence that there are lower risks and […]

LONDON (AP) — Britain became the first country to authorize AstraZeneca’s inexpensive, easy-to-handle COVID-19 vaccine Wednesday, gaining another weapon against the virus amid a resurgence so severe that the government extended lockdowns to three-quarters of England’s population. The country also changed course by deciding to dispense the first dose of its vaccines to as many […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Veteran Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai, who has long expressed his wish to enter national politics, has decided to launch a new center-left party to run in Israel’s coming elections. Huldai announced the formation of his new party, ‘Yisraelim’, at a Tuesday press conference together with Justice Minister Avi Nissenkorn who […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A week after the tragic death of Ahuvia Sandak, who was killed when a police car rammed into the car he was travelling in during a high-speed chase, the affair is still making waves in Israel. Settlers and their lawyers claim that police intentionally rammed the car in which Sandak and his […]

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Luke Letlow, Louisiana’s incoming Republican member of the U.S. House, died Tuesday night from complications related to COVID-19 only days before being sworn into office. He was 41. Letlow spokesman Andrew Bautsch confirmed the congressman-elect’s death at Ochsner-LSU Health Shreveport. “The family appreciates the numerous prayers and support over the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Ynet investigation discovered that tens of millions of shekels transferred by the German government and earmarked for Holocaust survivors did not in fact reach the survivors. The Israeli government received the money and deducted the same amount from the pensions it pays the survivors, effectively leaving them with the same amount […]

WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden criticized the Trump administration Tuesday for the pace of distributing COVID-19 vaccines and predicted that “things will get worse before they get better” when it comes to the pandemic. “We need to be honest — the next few weeks and months are going to be very tough, very […]

DENVER (AP) — The first reported U.S. case of the COVID-19 variant that’s been seen in the United Kingdom has been discovered in Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis announced Tuesday. The coronavirus variant was found in a man in his 20s who is in isolation southeast of Denver and has no travel history, state health officials […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel canceled its plan to quarantine citizens returning from abroad in hotels for two weeks following a public uproar and reported clashes between Israelis in the hotels and the officials running them. In at least one instance, dozens of people tried to rush out of the Leonardo Hotel in Jerusalem on Monday, […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Could we be eating fake meat in the near future? This is what the Swiss-based World Economic Forum would have us believe. The organization has been touting fake meat produced from a 3D printer as a “taste of the future.” Israeli scientists created a plant-based food which contains fake muscle, blood […]