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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.

“Abu Mazen is one of the world’s leading Holocaust deniers, a vile antisemite, and a sworn enemy of the State of Israel,” the Israeli Cabinet member said.
Dec. 8, 2024: Assad’s regime collapses, and Israel fears strategic weapons could fall into jihadist hands. A missile boat flotilla of the Israeli Navy is tasked with destroying the Syrian fleet at the port of Latakia.
“The policy is to allow free worship for Jews everywhere,” a spokesperson for the National Security Ministry said.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright did not say whether the progress in the talks with Saudi Arabia was tied to normalization with Israel.
“We will bring in tougher laws to target vandalism, hate marches that break laws [and] violent attacks based on ethnicity and religion,” said Pierre Poilievre.
U.S. President Donald Trump has paused planned tariff hikes on over 75 countries, including Israel, pending negotiations.
The Revolutionary Class Struggle group accused Athens of playing an active role in “the American-Zionist genocidal war in Palestine.”
“May God continue to watch over the Jewish people, the State of Israel, and the United States of America,” the president said.
The Otzma Yedudit Party leader reportedly received a “special invitation from his American counterparts.”
Geert Wilders, the leader of the Party for Freedom, a senior coalition partner, slammed Veldkamp’s move as “clumsy and premature.”
The lawmaker reportedly failed to cooperate with a “significant part” of the investigators’ questions.”
Israeli security forces “rushed to the scene,” in Huwara, where a car was damaged but there were no injuries, the IDF stated.