JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The US cold shoulder towards senior members of the right-wing in the Israeli cabinet has taken a new dimension after the events in Hawara last Sunday and Betzalel Smotrich’s apparent call to “wipe out” Hawara. Even prior to Smotrich’s statement, the US administration in the US had been planning to pointedly ignore […]

SPRING VALLEY (VINnews) – Five people died, including two children, in a fire in Spring Valley — and five others were hospitalized, Rockland County officials said Saturday. The fire at 118 Lake St. was reported at 4:03 a.m. and firefighters had it under control by 4:40 a.m. But by then five people were dead, a […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During an interview at a cultural event on Shabbat in Beersheva, Professor Dan Shachtman, An Israeli nobel laureate in chemistry, blasted the chareidi public in Israel, using harsh language to describe them. “They are sitting on the udders and milking the State of Israel,” Prof. Shachtman said. “I am deathly scared of […]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel acknowledged on Friday that an inscription in clay found in the country’s south bearing the name of Darius the Great, ruler of the ancient Persian Empire, was not authentic. The shard of pottery in question was discovered by a passerby last December and caused a sensation as the first mention of […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – The following opinion piece is reprinted with permission of Ruthie Blum, a Jerusalem Post reporter. Anti-government activists took to the streets across Israel on Wednesday to take part in a preplanned “Day of National Disruption.” It was an apt name for the endeavor, whose purpose was to impose the will of […]

(VINnews) — As Purim approaches, renowned Mechanech Rabbi Yakov Horowitz posted a video, guiding parents on how to help their children avoid bad habits and prevent addiction–including smoking, vaping, hookah, marijuana, and drinking. “Smoking, Vaping or Hookah?” pic.twitter.com/AbEvub5QXm — Yakov Horowitz (@yakovhorowitz) March 2, 2023

(JNS) — Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich clarified on Wednesday remarks he made calling for the Palestinian village of Huwara to be “wiped out” in response to a deadly terrorist attack that killed two Israelis on Sunday. “To avoid any doubt, I did not intend to suggest erasing the village of Huwara; rather, to act […]

ARIZONA (VINnews) – An overnight fire in a Phoenix condominium has taken the lives of multiple members of an Orthodox Jewish family, with several others remaining in extremely critical condition. ABC 15 (https://bit.ly/3YdOJNO) reported that the fire was called in just after 11 PM, with multiple 911 callers saying that they saw intense fire and […]

JERUSALEM (VINnews) Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, who is due to visit the US and speak to the Israel Bonds group, was condemned by State Department officials after he  called for the state of Israel to wipe the West Bank Palestinian town of Huwara off the map. “I think that Huwara needs to be wiped out, […]

TEL AVIV (VINnews) — Sara Netanyahu was accosted by a massive angry mob of protesters and became trapped in a Tel Aviv hair salon on Wednesday evening. The Prime Minister’s wife needed to be rescued by police, after waiting hours to be extricated. Nearly one thousand protesters against the government plan to reform the judiciary […]