JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Jerusalem District Prosecutor submitted an indictment against a 13-year-old Jerusalem resident on charges of attempted murder. The youth perpetrated the terror attack three weeks ago in the City of David, in which IDF officer Nadav Weinberg was seriously injured. Weinberg succeeded in shooting the terrorist and preventing him from continuing his […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF and police special forces are conducting an unusual daylight operation in Shechem in an attempt to arrest wanted terror suspects. Heavy fire has broken out as the forces attempted to surround a house in the heart of the city with terror suspects inside. The surprise raid was initiated after Shin […]

JORDAN (VINnews) — In a disgraceful display, Jordanian government officials cut the leather straps off the Tefillin of Dubai’s Sefardic Chief Rabbi. Airport security officials in Amman slashed Rabbi Moshe Khaliva’s Tefillin as he attempted to board a connecting flight to Abu Dhabi. According to the Jordanians, the leather straps could be used “to hang […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — Despite the incessant shelling and sirens in the Ukrainian capital, a unique and moving Jewish event occurred on Monday in Kyiv, Ukraine. Three older Jews, one of them aged 86, elected to have a Bris Milah and join the covenant of Avraham Avinu. Rabbi Moshe Asman, the chief rabbi of Ukraine, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — After the recent devastating earthquake in Turkey, a delegation of ZAKA voluntary emergency response teams from Israel scoured the ruins of Antakya, Turkey, searching for the remains of the president of the tiny, 2,200-year-old Jewish community. After they had located the president and his wife, who were tragically killed in the earthquake, […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — The Israeli government’s controversial judicial reform plan cleared a major hurdle as its parliament, the Knesset, voted to advance a key piece of the plan. The 63-47 vote took place early Tuesday morning, following a second week of mass protests outside the Knesset in Jerusalem. The bill was introduced by Prime […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Journalist Sivan Rahav-Meir described in an Arutz Sheva article the demise of one of the most ancient Jewish communities, which has existed for over 2,200 years. “Look at this picture. The last Jew of Antakya, Turkey, is putting on tefillin. An ancient Jewish community ceased to exist this week, and Gilad Nir […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Thousands of women converged on the Binyanei Ha’Uma auditorium in central Jerusalem for a gathering marking the shiva of the two brothers murdered in a terrorist attack last Friday, Yaakov Yisrael and Asher Menachem Paley HyD. The gathering was attended by a gallery of prominent people as well as by the children’s […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview prior to a crowdfunding campaign, terror victim Benaya Peretz, who was shot through the neck and critically injured in 2021, described his experiences and the aftermath of the brutal attack. “We were on the way to the Yeshiva Gevoha in Itamar, where I was in the first shiur. We […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Biden administration has averted a potential diplomatic crisis over Israeli settlements at the United Nations that had threatened to overshadow Western efforts for the world body to spotlight Russia’s war with Ukraine during the one-year anniversary of the Russian invasion this week. Multiple diplomats familiar with the situation said Sunday […]