Lebanon, Israel Closer To Deal In Maritime Border Dispute
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon and Israel are getting closer to reaching a deal in a more than a decade-old maritime border dispute between the two neighbors, a U.S. envoy and Lebanese offi...
Iran Arrests Members Of Baha’i Faith On Spying Charge Linked To Israel
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran’s intelligence ministry arrested several members of the Baha’i faith on spying charges, state TV reported Monday.
The ministry said in a ...
Unruly Behavior In Eda Chareidis Over Leadership Dispute
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In the wake of the passing away of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Eda Chareidis, the community's simmering dispute over its future leaders has ...
Jerusalem Municipality Slaps 17 Bar Ilan Rail Demonstrators With 5 Million NIS Lawsuit
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During the last two years violent demonstrations have been taking place on an almost weekly basis against the construction of the light rail system on Bar Ila...
Hezbollah Airs Video Of Israeli Barges In Disputed Gas Field
BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon's Hezbollah on Sunday aired drone footage of Israeli ships in a disputed gas field in the Mediterranean Sea, highlighting the tension at the center of U.S.-me...
Thousands Attend In Funeral Procession For Eidah Hachareidit Leader
JERUSALEM (VINnews) - Thousands of people turned out to pay their respects to Rabbi Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, the Ga'avad of the Eidah Hachareidit of Jerusalem, during his funeral proce...
Terrorist Indicted For Attacking Chareidi Jew With Concrete Tile Near Bnei Brak
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — An indictment was issued in the Tel Aviv District Court against Ahmed Rashdan, a 33-year-old Palestinian, for attempted murder and grievous bodily harm. Rashd...
IDF To Open All Roles, Including Elite Units, To Chareidim
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Yisrael Hayom newspaper reported Sunday that the IDF has agreed to a new arrangement which will enable chareidi recruits to defer their army service until...
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu: Six Year Old in Car Crash Died “Al Kiddush Hashem”
ISRAEL (VINnews) — Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu said that 6 year old Matan Zimnan’s death was undoubtedly considered perishing “Al Kiddush Hashem”. In addition, the Chief Rabbi of Tzfas sa...
Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss: A Brief Biography
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss was born in 1926 in the town of Pezinok near Bratislava in Czechoslovakia. His father, Rabbi Shlomo, was a Magid Shiur and disciple...
BDE: Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss, Leader Of Eda Charedis, Passes Away At Age 96
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Torah world mourns the loss of Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss Zts'l, Gaabad (leader) of the Eda Chareidis during the past 19 years, at the age of 96.
Durin...
WATCH: Critically Injured Man In Elad Terror Attack Returns To His Family
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Three months ago, 38-year-old Shai Ben-Shlomo was critically injured in a terror attack which occured in the park in Elad where he was walking with his childr...
Israel Police Name Detainee Connected To Kleinerman Disappearance: ‘Moishy Spoke Of Him’
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A Jerusalem court authorized to publicize that two people have been arrested in connection with the disappearance of Moishy Kleinerman. One of them. Solomon A...
Israel, US Decry Rights Monitor’s Remarks As ‘Antisemitic’
GENEVA (AP) — Israel, the United States and Britain on Thursday criticized an expert commissioned by the U.N. human rights body to examine the situation in the Middle East, accusin...
Car Accident In Egypt’s Sinai Kills 2 Israeli Tourists
JERUSALEM (AP) — A car accident in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Thursday killed two Israeli tourists and left five injured, the Israeli foreign ministry said.
According to the Isr...
WATCH: JASON GREENBLATT – ‘Trump was Enormously Fantastic For Israel’ (VIN EXCLUSIVE)
NEW YORK (VIN Podcast) — In this exclusive and powerful interview, Jason Greenblatt, author of “In the Path of Abraham”, discusses his historic tenure as a President Trump Special ...
A NY Congressional Candidate Doubles Down On BDS Support At Forum Held By Jewish Groups
New York (JTA) - A progressive seeking the Democratic nomination for the open seat in Congress in New York’s newly drawn District 10 doubled down on her defense of an Israel boycot...
Israel Inaugurates New Hospital Emergency Room Largest In The World
JERUSALEM (JNS) - Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital inaugurated its new Sylvan Adams Emergency Hospital on July 28, which at 8,000 square meters (9,500 square yards) is the largest emerg...
Israeli Supreme Court Overturns Previous Decision, Authorizes Binyamin Outpost Community
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — The Supreme Court overturned Wednesday a previous decision it had made and ruled that the community of Mitzpe Keramim, near the eastern Binyamin community of ...
Williamsburg Satmar Rebbe: Belz Are ‘Thrusting A Sword Into Talmud Torahs’
NEW YORK (VINnews) — On the occasion of the yahrzeit of his Great grandfather, Rabbi Moshe Teitelbaum, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehuda (Zalman Leib) Teitelbaum, Satmar rebbe of Williamsburg,...