WASHINGTON (JTA) — A House bill introduced Tuesday would extend penalties for boycotting Israel to compliance with boycotts organized by international organizations. The Israel Anti-Boycott Act introduced Tuesday by Rep. Lee Zeldin, a Jewish Republican from New York, would add language to 1970s-era anti-boycott laws that targeted the Arab League boycott of Israel to include […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent a letter to an Israeli-American woman imprisoned in Russia on drug charges, promising to do everything in his power to secure her release. “We are here in Israel, and you are in Russia, but the distance between us is bridged by the closeness of our hearts,” Netanyhu […]

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria’s air defenses confronted an aerial “aggression” from Israel that targeted an air base in the country’s center late Tuesday, state media reported quoting a military official. The official quoted by the state news agency SANA said the attack targeted the T-4 air base in Homs province shortly after 10 p.m. […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli court Tuesday delayed extradition proceedings for a woman facing dozens of sexual abuse charges in Australia, dashing hopes the protracted legal saga would proceed after psychiatrists found her fit to stand trial. The Jerusalem District Court granted the request of Malka Leifer’s attorney to question a psychiatric panel’s ruling last […]

KIRYAT ATA (VINnews) — A recent video shows a frightening scenario occurring in a store located in Kiryat Ata, a city in the Haifa district of Israel. The video shows an individual innocently standing and paying at the store counter, when suddenly a vehicle crashes right through the storefront, stopping just inches away from the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a surprise move Tuesday morning, National Union leader Betzalel Smotrich decided to team up with Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked’s New Right party for the coming Israeli elections. Smotrich, who represents the more conservative national religious camp, had been expected to join Rafi Peretz’s Jewish Home party which is closer to […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s Defense Ministry has recognized as a terror attack an incident in which a Palestinian mother of nine was killed by a thrown rock at her car. But since the woman, Aisha Rabi, is not an Israeli citizen, her family will not receive compensation from the National Insurance Institute, Ynet reported. Rabi, […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel is the home of Walter Bingham, 95, certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest living radio-talk show host. At a gathering in his honor in Jerusalem, hosted by the Israel Government Press Office on the last night of Hanukkah, Bingham told journalists, friends and family members that […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli lawmakers on Monday approved the formation of a committee to consider Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request for legal immunity, a major setback for the embattled leader who is seeking to fend off corruption charges. Netanyahu was charged in November with fraud, breach of trust and accepting bribes in three cases involving […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police said Monday they had raided a cult-like group in an ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Jerusalem in which dozens of women and children were being held and abused under “slavery” conditions. The police’s undercover investigation learned details from women who had escaped the group that authorities described as a “cult.” The police […]