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Akiva Van Koningsveld

Akiva Van Koningsveld is a news desk editor for JNS.org. Originally from The Hague, he made the big move from the Netherlands to Israel in 2020. Before joining JNS, he worked as a policy officer at the Center for Information and Documentation Israel, a Dutch organization dedicated to fighting antisemitism and spreading awareness about the Arab-Israel conflict. With a passion for storytelling and justice, he studied journalism at the University of Applied Sciences Utrecht and later earned a law degree from Utrecht University, focusing on human rights and civil liability.

At the funeral, bereaved father Hananel Gez called on the Israeli government to transfer Palestinian terrorists out of Judea and Samaria.
The motion, tabled by coalition and opposition members of the Land of Israel Caucus, was not legally binding.
The Berlin Office for the Protection of the Constitution called the boycott movement “a proven extremist endeavor” in its annual report.
The Israeli citizens added to the sanction list were veteran Zionist activist Daniella Weiss, the owner of a construction company and a farmer.
“Qatar has been the financial lifeline of Hamas for years,” Likud’s Dan Illouz told JNS.
Golan is “getting mandates because he’s a general, but right after the primary, everyone will realize this is a radical left-wing party,” said the Yesh Atid Party leader.
Eigty-one percent of Jewish Israelis have concerns about a large-scale terror attack emanating from Judea and Samaria.
“If the Saudis want peace for peace, with a maximized win-win for everyone, we’re very happy about that,” said the Israeli finance minister.
“We really need to implement what Trump told us to do,” Israel’s national security minister tells JNS.
“Humanitarian aid should not have been allowed to enter since the start of the war, as long as our hostages are rotting in Hamas’s tunnels,” he told JNS.
Last year, the IDF constructed a security fence surrounding the new road that bypasses the central Samaria terrorist hotspot of Huwara.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said the decision was part of his “normalization and de facto sovereignty revolution” in Judea and Samaria.