Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said early Sunday he was going to the hospital for an emergency procedure to receive a pacemaker, but vowed to press ahead with his controversial judicial overhaul plan. In a brief videotaped statement released at 2 a.m., Netanyahu said he had been fitted with a monitoring device after being briefly hospitalized last week for what his office had said was dehydration. He said an alarm on the device beeped Saturday night, meaning he needed a pacemaker immediately. “I feel excellent, but I listen to my doctors,” he said. עדכון ממני אליכם >> pic.twitter.com/Z6RH1ba4ez — Benjamin Netanyahu – בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) July 22, 2023 In a short statement, Netanyahu’s office said Israel’s leader would be placed under sedation.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A stabbing incident in the southern Jerusalem neighb

A federal judge in Florida has scheduled a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. The May 20, 2024, trial date, set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, is a compromise between a request from prosecutors to set the trial for this December and a bid by defense lawyers to schedule it after the 2024 presidential election. If the date holds, it would follow close on the heels of a separate New York trial for Trump on dozens of state charges of falsifying business records in connection with an alleged hush money payment to a woman.

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a bombshell announcement, Dov Hikind, the former NYS Assemblyman and renowned Jewish activist, has declared that he and his wife are switching to the Republican party.

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman referred in an army radio interview to the judicial reforms, sharply criticizing them.

Popular messaging app WhatsApp suffered a massive outage on Wednesday afternoon. Users across the world reported having issues establishing any connection, thus they were unable to send or receive messages. WhatsApp status were also not working. Around 45 minutes later, Meta Platforms said it had restored WhatsApp connectivity issues after thousands of users globally reported problems accessing the messaging app on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. “We’re back, happy chatting!” the Whatsapp Twitter account posted in a tweet. The company had earlier said it was experiencing disruptions “receiving incoming messages and message delivery on Whatsapp,” according to Meta’s status dashboard. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)