NEW YORK (VINnews) — An Israeli man charged by US authorities with defrauding investors, mainly chareidi Jews, of at least $47 million before fleeing the country in 2021 was arrested this week in Los Angeles, federal prosecutors announced Friday. 35-year-old Yossi Engel was indicted in January in absentia for allegedly using his company iWitness Tech […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation seized the assets of Silicon Valley Bank on Friday, marking the largest bank failure since Washington Mutual during the height of the 2008 financial crisis. The FDIC ordered the closure of Silicon Valley Bank and immediately took position of all deposits at the bank. The bank […]

NEW YORK (VINnews/Sandy Eller) – The owner of a boutique communications and public relations firm has created a stir on Twitter, blasting staff members at John F. Kennedy International Airport for what she describes as a pattern of openly harassing Orthodox Jewish travelers. Strategist Liz Mair took to social media on the afternoon of March […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) —Police concluded Friday their initial investigation of the attempted terrorist attack on a bus entering the city of Betar Illit Thursday evening. The investigation revealed that the terrorist placed the explosive device on the bus in order to explode it and cause numerous casualties on the bus. The terrorist descended from the bus […]

JERUSALEM (JNS) – The Israeli Defense Forces Home Front Command is urging residents of Beitar Illit to remain inside and lock their doors as police hunt for a terrorist who planted a suspected device that failed to detonate on a bus on Thursday night. After smoke billowed from a black bag on a bus nearby, […]

JABA, West Bank (AP) — Israeli police say a Palestinian attacker has shot and wounded three people in central Tel Aviv late on Thursday. Police say the attacker was shot. Israeli media say the attacker was killed. Medical workers said one of the wounded was in critical condition.

ITALY (VINnews) — An Israeli translator who speaks Italian is refusing to translate for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his upcoming visit to Italy. Netanyahu is slated to address the Jewish community at Rome’s Sephardi Synagogue, and the Israeli embassy requested the assistance of an interpreter. In response, Olga Dalia Padoa called Netanyahu “dangerous to democracy” […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists were eliminated by Israeli undercover forces operating near Jenin on Thursday morning. According to a Border Police spokesman, the undercover officers entered the Palestinian village of Jaba’, south of Jenin, to arrest two suspects wanted for a series of shooting attacks against Israeli forces in the area […]

ISRAEL (VINnews) — The Jerusalem Post has been slammed by Jewish leaders for essentially reporting fake news. Multiple Twitter users expressed outrage after the paper used a headline which suggested that a non-Jewish alleged serial pedophile is a Charedi Jew. In truth, the Texas man merely posed as a religious Jew as part of a […]

WASHINGTON (VINnews) — Former CDC Director Robert Redfield testified on Wednesday that Dr. Anthony Fauci and Dr. Frances Collins excluded him from discussions about the origins of Covid-19. At a House subcommittee hearing, the former Trump official testified that there is strong evidence that Covid leaked from a lab, and that belief did not jibe […]