JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Shin Bet and Jerusalem Police revealed Tuesday that they had uncovered a terror cell led by Hamas operatives, residents of East Jerusalem with Israeli ID, at the beginning of April. The cell intended to perpetrate terror attacks on Israeli targets in different manners and using different terror squads. The group intended […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — A senior member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps who was killed in Tehran on Sunday had planned kidnappings and other attempts to attack Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide, according to unsourced reports in Hebrew media. Col. Hassan Sayad Khodayari was shot five times by two unidentified gunmen in his car […]

POLAND (VINnews) — Over the past few days, Ivanka Trump visited Krakow and Warsaw to meet with Ukrainian refugees. Ms. Trump posted photos of the trip, which was coordinated by a charity organization, on social media Sunday. On her Facebook page, Ivanka has pictures of herself speaking with teenagers, playing guitars with a girl, , […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rav Shmuel Yosef Shor, the son of Hagaon Rav Avraham Shor and a disciple of Rabbi Shaul Alter, suffered serious injuries after he was attacked by mainstream Gur chasidim during the clashes which broke out over the weekend. Rabbi Shor collapsed on Motzaei Shabbos and was rushed to hospital suffering from apparent […]

FRANCE (JTA) – A dispute between neighbors in France ended with the death of a 90-year-old Jewish man, according to police, who do not suspect an antisemitic motive. Police arrested a 51-year-old neighbor of the deceased, René Hadjaj, sometime after Hadjaj’s death on Tuesday evening outside his home in Lyon in eastern France, the Tribune […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — The popular and influential Charedi news outlet, B’Chadrei Charedim, published an editorial Friday, discussing the Meron debacle which took place on Lag B’Omer. In a piece entitled “The Handwriting was on the Wall / How the Plans in Meron Collapsed’, the news outlet essentially said that the authorities did not connect with […]

MERON (VINnews) — On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of Charedi extremist rioters broke into the Tomb of the RASHBI on Mount Meron, forcing police to shut down the entire celebration. According to officials, extremists tore down the mechitzos dividing the men’s and women’s sections, and they hurled fences to the ground. As a result, police determined […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Lag Ba’Omer festivities at Meron had a somber feeling in the wake of last year’s tragic stampede. The festivities were opened with the traditional lighting by the Boyaner Rebbe but prior to the lighting, 45 candles were lit to commemorate the victims of the tragedy last year. Police attempted to strictly […]

Live updates from Meron will be published here in live time. Additionally, YWN will be posting in live time on WhatsApp: YWN MERON WHATSAPP STATUS UPDATES: CLICK HERE to join the YWN WhatsApp Status. YWN MERON WHATSAPP GROUPS: CLICK HERE to be added to an official YWN WhatsApp Group. Despite the horrific tragedy in Meron at last year’s Lag B’Omer celebrations, tens of thousands of people are expected to visit the kever of Rabi Shimon bar Yochai on Wednesday night and Thursday. Due to the serious safety concerns that came to prominence after the death of 45 men and boys last year, the Justice Ministry, Religious Affairs Ministry, and Israeli Police have enacted regulations to limit the number of visitors at the site to 16,000 at any given point.