Month November 2020
An Arab Israeli MK has broken ranks with the Joint List party, making overtures to the Likud, which has for decades been on the other side of the political divide.… Read more » The post Joint Arab List MK Breaks… Continue Reading →
Zaka Search and Rescue has signed an historic agreement for future cooperation with the Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition (DIHAD). The two parties signed a Memorandum… Read more » The post ZAKA Joins With Dubai-Based Humanitarian… Continue Reading →
HAIFA (VINnnews) — During a raid in the Druze village of Yarka Monday to locate illegal drugs, Israeli police were surprised to recover sections of a 450-year-old Torah scroll. Aided by a police dog, officers conducted a search on a… Continue Reading →
A Jewish man was assaulted in Monsey Glatt on Thursday afternoon. Sources tell YWN that a delivery truck was unloading at the store, when a Hispanic male told the driver he needs to move so he can get out. The… Continue Reading →
Toronto police said Wednesday that they have identified a person of interest in the killing of Canadian drug company billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife nearly three years ago. Police… Read more » The post Toronto Police Have “Person of… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — Residents of the town of Trelleborg on the south coast of Sweden were astonished to discover the sky around their homes taking on a bizarre purple color at night. The strange color was created by a… Continue Reading →
The bomb was meant to explode in a Paris suburb during a huge rally being held by an exiled Iranian opposition group. It could have caused carnage. Instead, the explosion ripped apart the robot that army specialists were using to… Continue Reading →
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No, they’re not pulling your leg. The discovery of an octopus with nine legs in Shizugawa Bay in Minami-Sanriku, Japan, has surprised even a local researcher, who said he had… Read more » The post 9-Legged Octopus Found in Japanese… Continue Reading →
The leaders of Hungary and Poland vowed Thursday to uphold their veto of the European Union’s next budget — and its massive pandemic relief fund — saying a mechanism that… Read more » The post Hungary, Poland Uphold Their Veto… Continue Reading →
Rome’s Fiumicino airport will run COVID-tested flights to and from the United States operated by Delta Air Lines and Alitalia, it said on Thursday, adding it will be the first… Read more » The post Rome Airport to Offer COVID-Tested… Continue Reading →
The Ethiopian military will begin the “final phase” of an offensive in the northern Tigray region, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday, after an ultimatum expired for Tigrayan forces… Read more » The post Ethiopia to Launch ‘Final Phase’… Continue Reading →
A new day center facility for the elderly in the Chareidi community is being built in the Romema neighborhood of Jerusalem. The new center, which will allow the elderly from the Chareidi community to receive care, socialize, and participate in… Continue Reading →
Ford Motor Co. bought a dozen ultra-cold freezers to store a COVID-19 vaccine that —once available— will be distributed to employees on a voluntary basis. The Dearborn-based automaker said the… Read more » The post Ford Buys Freezers to Store… Continue Reading →
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Thursday that officials are working on a winter plan for the coronavirus that will add metrics for how it designates virus hot zones. Cuomo… Read more » The post NY Winter Virus Plan Will… Continue Reading →
PCS/ Agudath Israel recently hosted a Parnassah Networking Meeting, where job seekers met with Lakewood baalei batim (picture), who advised them about potential job opportunities.
There was good news and bad news on the pandemic front in Israel on Thursday: Phase I in trials of an Israeli vaccine was completed successfully, and the government gave… Read more » The post Israeli Vaccine Finishes Phase I,… Continue Reading →
The U.S. government on Wednesday appealed a judge’s order barring the expulsions of immigrant children who crossed the border alone, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to deny the… Read more » The post U.S. Will Appeal Order Barring… Continue Reading →
As YWN reported last night, in a landmark vindication of religious rights, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an injunction, just minutes before midnight late Wednesday, against New York State’s arbitrary limit of 10 or 25 individuals in… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday welcomed to Ben-Gurion International Airport the first commercial flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. Speaking during the welcoming ceremony at the airport, Netanyahu said the flight “now opens the way… Continue Reading →