JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the fierce public opposition to the new Israeli government’s plans for judicial reform, President Herzog has been spearheading efforts to mediate between the court and the government officials. In recent days Herzog reportedly worked “20 hours a day” to bring the sides together, according to a source close […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Tens of thousands of demonstrators thronged to the Habima square in Tel Aviv on Saturday night. In driving rain, the protesters spoke out against the judicial reforms being proposed by the current government. A large number of past and present politicians are participating in the demonstration, including Benny Gantz and Gadi Eizenkot, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three youths aged 16, 17 and 18 were killed and two other people moderately injured after a late-night collision between two cars near the community of Beit Hillel in the northern Galilee. Initial police investigations of the accident revealed that the three youths, Uri Malul, Ariel Stern and Daniel Porat were returning […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In what has been viewed by many as a media gimmick, former Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak was photographed by the Mishpacha magazine wearing Tefillin. At the end of a stormy interview with journalist Aryeh Erlich, who said that “there were almost no agreements in the stormy and even fiery […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — Police arrested one of the three radical Neturei Karta members who met with terrorists from Islamic Jihad in Jenin earlier this week. The arrest was on the grounds of supporting a terrorist organization and illegally entering Area A of Judea and Samaria. According to reports, the other two members may be arrested […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) – Yoav Silberstein, 16, waited an hour and a half to get into 7-Eleven’s new flagship — and so far only — store in Israel. Located in the heart of Tel Aviv in Dizengoff Center, the store opening on Wednesday attracted throngs of mostly teenagers hoping to get a taste of America in the […]

UKRAIEN (VINnews) – On Wednesday, an elderly Jewish man with no living Jewish relatives passed away in Ukraine in the town of Bila Tserkva. A Christian burial ceremony was planned for the deceased until a local rabbi heard about the news and notified United Hatzalah volunteer Naftali Rabinovich, from the Uman branch of the organization. […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Former top Israeli legal officials spoke out Thursday against sweeping changes to the country’s justice system planned by the new conservative government, lending their voices to a growing outcry against the proposed overhaul. Seven former attorneys general who have served in the post throughout the last five decades signed a […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — Adolfo Kaminsky, the French-Jewish photographer, forger, smuggler and resistance fighter who saved thousands of people during the Holocaust as part of the French underground, died at 97 in his home in Paris on Monday. Kaminsky’s improbable and heroic story was detailed in a book by his daughter, written in his voice, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israeli’s stormy political climate has led to five elections within three years. Yet despite the deadlock finally being emphatically broken, with a 64-man fully right-wing coalition for the first time in three decades, the tempo of the political rhetoric has merely grown more acerbic, more raucous and more incendiary. The storm was […]