UKRAINE (VINnews) – As Ukraine is being wracked with sub-zero temperatures, snow, and with the persistent shortage of electricity caused by the continuation of the war, numerous establishments such as schools, orphanages, and medical clinics have requested assistance in coping with the extremely low temperatures and the lack of ability to prepare food. On Tuesday, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the course of a business trip to Italy, a former Mossad agent collapsed and fell unconscious on a train trip, losing his pulse and breathing. A local paramedic fought for his life on the platform and on the way to a hospital in Rome and after succeeding in stabilizing his condition […]

JERUSALEM(VINnews) — Professor Asa Kasher, a philosopher who authored the IDF’s ethics code, has been one of the most outspoken critics of the chareidi community. In recent months, Kasher, a grandson of Rabbi Mendel Kasher, has stepped up his verbal abuse, terming chareidim a ‘mutation’ of the original chareidi community. In a Sunday interview Kasher […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Shimon Ba’adani, the leader of the Sephardic Council of Torah sages and spiritual mentor of the Shas party, passed away Wednesday morning in Tel Hashomer-Sheba hospital at the age of 94. Rabbi Ba’adani had been sick over the last year with lung cancer and spent a number of periods in hospital. […]

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Investments in Israel’s tech sector dropped by nearly half in 2022, reflecting a global economic slowdown, a nonprofit group reported Tuesday. Startup Nation Central, which tracks the industry in Israel, said the total value of investments in the tech sector sank from an all-time high of $27 billion in 2021 […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A journalist and research analyst at the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA), has called out television host Christiane Amanpour after she implied on her television program there is a comparison between the actions of Israel and those of the Syrian regime. The analyst, David Litman, was referring […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Mirel Dzaslowski, the mother of 11 and member of the Karlin Chasidic group who was severely injured by a burning dumpster which rolled on her during a demonstration in Geula three weeks ago, has been released home from hospital. Mirel spent three weeks in Shaare Tzedek hospital after collapsing on the pavement […]

GERMANY (VINnews) — The Mossad has done it again. Predictably, the Israeli spy agency provided the information that led to the arrest of an Iranian who planned a major chemical weapons attack in Germany. According to i24 News, Israeli sources confirmed the Mossad’s involvement after the German Bild newspaper reported that an unnamed friendly nation’s […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected an Israeli spyware maker’s bid to derail a high-profile lawsuit filed by the WhatsApp messaging service. The justices left in place lower court rulings against the Israeli firm, NSO Group. WhatsApp claims that NSO targeted some 1,400 users of the encrypted messaging service with highly sophisticated […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a worrying demonstration of the dangers for children in the Israeli chareidi community, the Beterem organization for child home safety reported that 101 children were killed during 2022 in various home-related accidents, of which 26 were from the chareidi community. The data showed that the danger factor for a chareidi child […]