Month May 2020
There are 16,621 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Monday, a number that for the first time stayed the same overnight, which means that no new cases of the coronavirus were reported since Sunday night. As no… Continue Reading →
Outgoing Health Minister Yaakov Litzman said on Sunday that he, too, thought there was an overreaction when preparing for the coronavirus outbreak. Speaking in an interview on Reshet Bet radio, Litzman claimed that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu “responded to the… Continue Reading →
The Toms River Police Department is requesting you share the following information with your loved ones. There has been increased activity in a scam directed toward grandparents where the caller represents themselves as a grandchild who is incapacitated in some… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) – The FBI has found a link between the gunman in a deadly attack at a military base last December and an al-Qaida operative, a U.S. official said Monday. Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Chris Wray… Continue Reading →
[COMMUNICATED] Rebbetzin Kolodetsky, daughter of Rav Chaim Kanievsky and spiritual leader in her own right, released the following video address this week on behalf of members of her extended family. Her brother-in-law, Rav Yaakov Kolodetsky, was a talmid chacham who… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In an interview on Israel’s Radio Two channel, outgoing Health Minister Yaakov Litzman attacked the outgoing director-general of his ministry, Moshe Bar Siman-Tov for allegedly “sowing panic” during the coronavirus outbreak in Israel. Litzman said that “the… Continue Reading →
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JERUSALEM (AP) — An evangelical broadcaster who boasted of miraculously securing a TV license in Israel now risks being taken off the air over suspicions of trying to convert Jews to Christianity. The controversy over “GOD TV” has put both… Continue Reading →
China‘s president called on Monday for an independent review of the global response to the coronavirus pandemic under the World Health Organization once the virus is under control, and defended… Read more » The post China Defends Handling of Coronavirus,… Continue Reading →
Summer has started early this year, as Israel is in the midst of its longest documented heat wave, as temperatures that climbed to record heights are expected to last until the… Read more » The post Israel Going Through Extreme Heat… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (JTA) – Jews in New York State may be able to gather legally for small-scale religious services during the next holiday, Shavuot. Gov. Andrew Cuomo said in his daily coronavirus briefing Sunday that his office planned to release… Continue Reading →
Teva Pharmaceutical said on Monday that China has given the go-ahead to its Austedo treatment for Huntington’s disease. Israel-based Teva’s Chief Executive Kare Schultz said Austedo would be priced somewhat… Read more » The post Teva Gets China Approval for… Continue Reading →
The US Lab0r Department announced that prices paid by US consumers for groceries rose by 2.6% in April, the largest single-month spike since February 1974. The rise in grocery prices stands in contrast with an overall decline in US prices,… Continue Reading →
WASHINGTON (AP) — Army Sgt. Antonio Gozikowski was planning to leave the military next month and head to college. After serving for six years, the dental assistant’s goal was to become a dentist, and then return to the Army in… Continue Reading →
Tourism-dependent Spain aims to reopen borders to visitors around the end of June as its coronavirus lockdown fully unwinds, a minister said on Monday, in a much-needed boost for the… Read more » The post Spain Aims to Reopen Borders… Continue Reading →
The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline rose a nickel over the past three weeks, to $1.97 per gallon. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday that the slight jump comes after prices at the pump crashed… Continue Reading →
A unique study, the first of its kind in Israel, was carried out in which researchers used the unique genetic codes of coronavirus infections to trace their origin, Channel 12 News reported. The study showed that the Israeli government’s decision… Continue Reading →
The Lod District Court on Monday convicted Amiram Ben-Uliel of three counts of murder in a 2015 arson attack in the Arab village of Kfar Duma, which killed three members of the Dawabsha family, including a toddler. The court ruled… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — An Israeli district court on Monday convicted a Jewish extremist of murder in a 2015 arson attack that killed a Palestinian toddler and his parents, a case that had sent shock waves through Israel and helped fuel… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) — Accusations of a “deep state” conspiracy. Allegations of personal and family corruption. Painting an opponent as a Washington insider not to be trusted. It’s 2016 again. Or at least that’s President Donald Trump’s hope. Trump and… Continue Reading →