JERUSALEM (JNS) – The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, a member of the governing coalition, will introduce a bill to make “inappropriate behavior” at the Western Wall a criminal offense. The legislation defines inappropriate behavior as conducting mixed prayer (men and women together), playing a musical instrument, inappropriate clothing, and smoking. Anyone who violates one of the […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Benny Chukrun, speaking in Hebrew on a wind-whipped day outside the Israeli embassy in the U.S. capital, had a message for his fellow protesters. “We have a special role in Washington. We have access to the Jewish opinion leaders in the United States,” he said at a rally on Sunday opposing […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The mayor of Barcelona has severed her city’s official ties with Israel, accusing the country of “the crime of apartheid against the Palestinian people.” Wednesday’s decision by Mayor Ada Colau has little practical impact – with the most concrete effect being a halt to its 25-year-old twinning agreement with Tel Aviv. […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) —  A Syrian boy filmed himself as he was stuck under the rubble after the earthquake which struck Turkey and Syria on Monday. “I don’t know if I’ll die or stay alive,” the boy says in the video which circulated online on Wednesday. “I don’t know how to describe the feeling of […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Members of the IDF Home Front Command rescue delegation to Turkey have been working non-stop in bitterly cold conditions and in a race against time to save victims trapped in the rubble. Lt. Col. Doron Ziv, a member of the delegation, spoke to Israel radio channel 103 FM’s Nissim Mishal and Guy […]

TURKEY (VINnews) — A vicious pro-terrorist, anti-Israel activist is facing intense backlash on Twitter, after posting a cruel, insensitive, and false tweet attacking Israel over its generous decision to help earthquake victims in Turkey. He also politicized the massive humanitarian tragedy taking place before our eyes. Former journalist Daniel Easterman falsely accused Israel of exploiting […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview with Israel radio’s Esti Perez, Ezra Janoudi, a Jew living in the city of Antakya described the terrifying moments of the earthquake which destroyed his home. Janoudi said that “I hope everything will be OK. I lost everything, I don’t have Tefillin or a Tehillim.” Janoudi said that he […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The IDF was set to send a further delegation Wednesday morning to the stricken areas in Southern Turkey. After a 150-man search and rescue team arrived Tuesday morning and assisted in rescue efforts, the second delegation will consist of medical and logistics corps and is set to establish a field hospital to […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In dramatic footage from the Turkish towns devastated by Sunday night’s earthquake, IDF search and rescue personnel from the 150-man delegation named “Olive Branches” which arrived Tuesday can be seen assisting and rescuing victims from the rubble of collapsed buildings. The search and rescue teams used all the technological means at their […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected a call by the Biden administration to temporarily freeze construction in Judea and Samaria and halt demolitions of illegal Arab structures in those territories as well as the eastern part of Jerusalem. However, while Israeli officials stressed that these activities would not be stopped completely, […]