JERUSALEM (JNS) — A Palestinian man serving a 10-year sentence in the Palestinian Authority for selling land to Israeli Jews died in a hospital in Ramallah on Sunday. The prisoner, who was identified by P.A. officials only by the initials M.E., was arrested by P.A. security forces in 2012, and was transferred from jail to […]

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The leaders of Cyprus, Greece and Israel plan to sign an agreement early in the new year for the building of the eastern Mediterranean natural gas pipeline, the Greek prime minister’s office announced Sunday. The agreement will be signed in Athens on Jan. 2 by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Cypriot […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Recently, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez was interviewed on a radio program, during which she made remarks perceived by some to be incendiary towards Israel. This prompted the Rabbinical Alliance of America to send a letter to Nancy Pelosi, demanding that she request clarification into Cortez’s comments. The letter reads as follows: The […]

BEIT SHEMESH (VINnews) — During Yud Tes Kislev celebrations in Kfar Chabad, the Malchus band performed musical accompaniment, including celebrating singer Yoeli Rabinowitz. When prime minister Netanyahu arrived, Rabinowitz, who is a Satmar Chassid, was forced to be part of the welcoming party, singing Le’Binyamin Amar in honor of the prime minister as well as […]

LOD (VINnews) — 4 people were killed and 14 injured, 2 of them seriously after a bus no. 947 travelling from Tel Aviv to Haifa via Ben Gurion Airport lost control and crashed into a concrete bus stop on road 40 adjacent to the airport. The force of the crash caused a concrete girder to […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) — After an 11-year delay, the new high-speed rail link between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem began running on Saturday night. The rail line cost approximately NIS 7 billion ($2 billion dollars) to construct, with some estimates ranging as high as NIS 9 billion ($2.6 billion). The Jerusalem station is 80 meters underground, making […]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court took a major step Friday toward opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories, asking judges exactly what territory a future investigation could cover. The announcement ended years of preliminary investigations into alleged crimes by both Israeli forces and […]

GREENBELT, Md. (AP) — A federal judge in Maryland on Thursday sentenced an Israeli woman to 22 years in prison for orchestrating a scheme that prosecutors said defrauded tens of thousands of investors across the globe out of tens of millions of dollars. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang told Lee Elbaz, 38, that her actions […]

HAHOTRIM BEACH, Israel (AP) — An international team of researchers says it has discovered a seawall thousands of years old along Israel’s Mediterranean coast, providing evidence that coastal communities protected themselves against rising waters even in ancient times. The scientists believe the more than 100-meter-long (110-yard-long) structure acted as a fortification against surging waters and […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A Moscow court upheld the verdict against an American-Israeli woman jailed on charges of drug smuggling on Thursday after a hearing in which she asserted that she had been tricked into signing a confession. Naama Issachar, 25, was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison in October following her conviction for smuggling […]