Month July 2020
LONDON (AP) — EBay Inc. is selling its classifieds business to Norway’s Adevinta in a deal worth $9.2 billion that will create the world’s largest online classifieds group, the companies said Tuesday. Under the terms of the deal, the U.S…. Continue Reading →
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden said he is putting Russia and other foreign governments “on notice” that he would act aggressively as president to counter any interference in U.S. elections.… Read more » The post Biden, Lawmakers Warn of Foreign… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (AP) — Jordan’s prime minister says the kingdom would look “positively” on the creation of a binational state that guarantees equal rights to Israelis and Palestinians if Israel’s proposed annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank closes the… Continue Reading →
A doctor at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer has tested positive again for the novel coronavirus – three months after recovering from her first infection, in April. She recovered… Read more » The post Second Case of Coronavirus Reinfection… Continue Reading →
On Monday, the Department of Justice authorized the filing of a lawsuit against the Village of Airmont for action that “unreasonably limits the practice of religion by the village’s Orthodox… Read more » The post Agudath Israel Applauds the DoJ… Continue Reading →
A German man went on trial Tuesday for a Yom Kippur attack on a shul that is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in the country’s postwar history. The… Read more » The post Yom Kippur Shul Attacker Goes… Continue Reading →
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The Health Ministry recorded Israel’s highest infection rate on Tuesday since the pandemic began, almost 7%, with 1,855 new coronavirus daily cases. The number of active cases has risen to 29,883, with 260 in serious condition, including 78 on ventilators…. Continue Reading →
MAGDEBURG, Germany (AP) — A German man went on trial Tuesday for a Yom Kippur attack on a synagogue that is considered one of the worst anti-Semitic assaults in the country’s post-war history. The trial comes at a time when… Continue Reading →
Among the victims of coronavirus were three kollel avreichim, one in Yerushalyim, another in Bnei Brak, and the third in Be’er Sheva. Each was the father of a large family,… Read more » The post Treasury’s ‘Life Insurance for Avreichim’… Continue Reading →
Yesterday, the United States Department of Justice authorized the filing of a lawsuit against the Village of Airmont for actions that “unreasonably limits the practice of religion by the village’s Orthodox Jewish Community.” In a letter to the Village, Acting… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM — An Israeli parliamentary committee has overturned a government decision and allowed restaurants to remain open despite new restrictive measures to try and quell the spread of the coronavirus. The coronavirus oversight committee voted Tuesday to keep restaurants open… Continue Reading →
Israel’s Shin Bet thwarted planned terror attacks against Israeli and IDF soldiers by a Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terror cell trained and funded by Iran and Hezbollah, the security agency revealed on Tuesday. The Shin Bet discovered… Continue Reading →
LONDON (VINnews) —The Oxford University team which published positive results from its Phase I human trials this week hopes to begin tests later this year on volunteers who will be intentionally exposed to the virus in a controversial process known… Continue Reading →
Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Tuesday he hoped to visit China by the end of the year to discuss areas of mutual interest, even as he condemned Chinese maritime… Read more » The post Pentagon Chief Looking to Visit… Continue Reading →
Have you ever looked at your tax bill and thought, ‘You know, I really wish I would be contributing more to the government’s slush fund’? If that sounds like you, I have just the presidential candidate you’re looking for: Joe… Continue Reading →
The remains of twenty-nine Jews were transferred from a cemetery south of Paris to eastern France in an unprecedented operation held to rescue these bodies from eventual cremation. These bodies… Read more » The post French Jewish Community Rescues Bodies,… Continue Reading →
Shalva Zalfreund, a’h, a kindergarten teacher and resident of Petach Tikvah passed away on Friday at the age of 64 after contracting the coronavirus in her classroom. A week after she was diagnosed with the virus and two weeks before… Continue Reading →
Israeli security forces broke up a terrorist cell that had been planning attacks on Israeli civilians and security personnel, the Shin Bet reported Tuesday. In April, Israeli forces captured members… Read more » The post Shin Bet: PFLP Terror Cell… Continue Reading →
The Health Ministry updated Tuesday that the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Israel is 52,687, an increase of 1,973 patients since the update on Monday morning. According… Read more » The post Israel’s Death Toll Rises to… Continue Reading →