JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Israel’s secret service, known as Shin Bet announced Wednesday that it had rounded up a huge Palestinian terror cell numbering 50 suspects, including those who allegedly murdered 17-year-old Rina Shnerb in an attack at the Danny Spring near Dolev in August. The cell was affiliated with the Popular Front for the Liberation […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — Students at the Ponovezh Yeshiva took upon themselves to fast Thursday at the behest of their Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Shmuel Markowitz, because they may have inadvertently eaten forbidden foods. The students had approached their Rosh Yeshiva after some of them noticed earlier in the week that the food being served in […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, will visit Israel for the first time in an official capacity next month in order to attend the upcoming World Holocaust Forum at Yad Vashem. According to The Jewish Chronicle, the British royal will “undertake a number of engagements on behalf of the British Government,” […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Two Lebanese-Australian brothers were sentenced to decades of prison time for their roles in a 2017 bombing plot of an airliner that was foiled with the help of Israeli intelligence. Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat targeted an Etihad Airways flight from Sydney to the United Arab Emirates. The New South Wales Supreme Court […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — As Israel rubs its eyes in disbelief and prepares for yet another election in the hope that somehow it will magically solve the political impasse which has plagued the country for nearly a year, politicians are busy sharpening their knives to dig into their opponents and score bonus points. The main tussle […]

PARIS (JTA) — Jeremy Corbyn said he lost Thursday’s elections due to hostile media and his refusal to commit to Brexit. “Media attack,” the Labour Party leader wrote, has “an impact on the outcome.” Corbyn’s critics dismissed his explanation as “delusional,” citing instead his radical left-wing views, calling Hamas and Hezbollah “his friends,” and perceived […]

RIO DE JANEIRO (JTA) — Brazil has opened a new trade office in Jerusalem as a first step to moving its embassy to the Israeli capital next year. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, attended the opening ceremony on Sunday side by side with Eduardo Bolsonaro, the son of Brazilian President Jair […]

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Wild boars are stalking the streets of Haifa these days, and some residents say they feel like they “live in a jungle.” It all started when the northern Israeli municipality halted efforts to keep down the pigs’ population. While some city residents told the French news agency AFP they were unconcerned, others […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A young father who was in the midst of the Shiva for his infant son who had died of crib death, collapsed himself and died during the Shiva. Yitzhak Meir Weiss, a 31-year-old graduate of the Mir Brachfeld Yeshiva in Kiryat Sefer, had waited a number of years before his only […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) Blue and White leader Benny Gantz said on Thursday that he would consider pardoning indicted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “in accordance with the recommendations of the justice system” if Netanyahu were to retire from politics. Speaking at a party event, Gantz said: “We don’t want to see another prime minister behind prison […]