Month July 2023
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday vowed to press ahead with his contentious judicial overhaul, despite unprecedented mass protests at home, growing defections by military reservists and appeals from the U.S. president to put the plan… Continue Reading →
LONDON (JNS) – A Conservative member of the United Kingdom parliament on Tuesday accused Israel of killing Palestinian children in military operations this year. Paul Bristow, Tory representative for Peterborough, made the comments to the House of Commons during a… Continue Reading →
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Nearly 40% of the money raised by the WHO Foundation in its first two years came from anonymous sources, worrying some that donors may be trying to influence the World Health Organization and its role in… Continue Reading →
LONDON (AP) — Thousands of senior doctors in England began a 48-hour walkout Thursday to demand better pay and conditions, paralyzing hospitals and leaving only emergency care covered. The severe disruptions are the latest in months of industrial action by… Continue Reading →
MOSCOW (AP) — Mercenaries from Russia’s military company Wagner on Thursday launched joint drills with the Belarusian military near the border with Poland following their relocation to Belarus after their short-lived rebellion, a move that prompted Warsaw to redeploy its… Continue Reading →
New York City Agrees to Pay $13 Million to 2020 Racial Injustice Protesters in Historic Class Action
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a civil rights lawsuit brought on behalf of roughly 1,300 people who were arrested or beaten by police during racial injustice demonstrations that… Continue Reading →
American Airlines Rides Travel Boom to $1.3 Billion Profit in the Second Quarter as Fuel Prices Drop
DALLAS (AP) — American Airlines is reporting a $1.34 billion profit for the second quarter, boosted by strong ticket sales and a huge drop in the price of jet fuel and the airline raised its profit expectations for the year…. Continue Reading →
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea hasn’t responded to U.S. attempts to discuss the American soldier who bolted across the heavily armed border, officials in Washington said, underscoring that the serviceman’s prospects for a quick release are unclear at… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a bombshell announcement, Dov Hikind, the former NYS Assemblyman and renowned Jewish activist, has declared that he and his wife are switching to the Republican party. The lifelong Democrat says that the “Dems have turned… Continue Reading →
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A South Florida jury awarded $800,000 in damages to a little girl who received second-degree burns when a hot Chicken McNugget fell on her leg as her mother pulled away from the drive-thru of a… Continue Reading →
NEW YORK (AP) – Fewer Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week with the labor market continuing to cruise along despite higher interest rates intended to cool hiring. U.S. applications for jobless claims fell by 9,000 to 228,000 for the… Continue Reading →
In a further step to enabling Israel to join the US Visa Waiver program, Israeli Ambassador to the US Michael Herzog and US Ambassador to Israel Tom Nides signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) Wednesday, allowing any US citizen to… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — In a video clip published on social media , a female lifeguard can be heard talking to the social activist Shimon Cohen in Tiberias, who was looking to hire a lifeguard for the municipal beach. The call… Continue Reading →
Thousands of Jewish pilgrims, who arrived early Thursday morning in Nablus to worship at Joseph’s Tomb, came under attack. The worshipers came to the compound in about 40 buses secured by IDF forces, and during the prayer service local terrorists… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — A German priest claimed Wednesday that he had been asked to remove his cross while visiting the Western Wall. Th priest, who was accompanied by a German cabinet minister, refused to comply with the request, stating that… Continue Reading →
JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Former Shin Bet head Nadav Argaman referred in an army radio interview to the judicial reforms, sharply criticizing them. Argaman even justified the widespread refusal to serve in the IDF reserves if the government continues to promote… Continue Reading →
(VINnews) — In the face of ongoing criticism for slandering Israel as a “racist” state, Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) said that “most of us that get called out are women, Black, brown, immigrant. Rabbi Yoel Schonfeld, President of the Coalition… Continue Reading →
OP-ED (Duvi Honig / VINnews) — As the ambulances were whisking away the injured from the recent car-ramming terror attack in Tel Aviv, the International Red Cross was setting its sights on what it sees as the real culprit in… Continue Reading →