EGYPT (JNS) — An Egyptian court has sentenced the head of an Egyptian publishing company to five years in prison for distributing an Arabic version of an Israeli spy novel in 2016, the AFP reported on Tuesday. The book, “The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel,” by Israeli author Uri Bar-Joseph, portrays Ashraf Marwan—the […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli researchers are attempting to produce the world’s first “super wine” that magnifies the health benefits of fermented grapes without compromising on taste, Israel21C reported. For three years, researchers at Tel-Hai College in northern Israel have been working to make wine healthier by trying to raise the naturally occurring levels of resveratrol, […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Over 110,000 members of the Likud Party will vote on Thursday to select a party chairman prior to Israel’s March 2 elections—the country’s third national vote in under 12 months. The incumbent, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is facing a leadership challenge from Knesset member and former minister Gideon Sa’ar. For Netanyahu, the […]

TEHRAN (JNS) — Alireza Firouzja, Iran’s top-ranked chess player, has decided to change his nationality in order to get around Tehran’s ban on competing against Israelis, according to Iranian media reports quoted by Reuters on Tuesday. Firouzja is the world’s second-highest rated junior player. In November, Germany granted refugee status to Iranian judoka Saeid Mollaei, […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a third case of flu-related deaths in Israel within 4 days, Hillel Dachbash, a 19-year-old yeshiva student from the village of Neriah near Jerusalem, died in Shaarei Tzedek of complications from the flu disease he had contracted a few days earlier. Dachbash, who studied at the Elon Moreh yeshiva, had been […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Likud Knesset member Gideon Sa’ar said on Monday that if he is elected to the leadership of the party during Thursday’s primaries, he will seek to have Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appointed to the presidency. The term of the current president, Reuven Rivlin, ends in July 2021. Referring to the upcoming […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military on Tuesday said it has wrapped up an investigation into an airstrike that killed nine members of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip. The report claims the targeted house had been used by Islamic militants but also admitted it didn’t expect the strike to result in civilian casualties. […]

An unusual large stone has been found in the ruins of an old shrine in Tel Beit Shemesh adjacent to the town of Beit Shemesh, which is considered by scholars to be the site of the biblical city of Beit Shemesh. The shrine dates to 3,100 years ago, which corresponds to the period of the […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Anti-Semitism does not only abound in the Diaspora, it unfortunately can be found on the streets of Jerusalem. A shocking video recently emerged from Arab workers at the Machane Yehuda market who intentionally abuse elderly Jewish vendors and then publish their antics on TikTok. One of the vendors, a 93 years old […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit to submit his legal opinion on whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can assemble a government despite the indictments against him. The court announced that after receiving and approving a petition with 67 signatures demanding a ruling on whether an indicted […]