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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.

“They took amazing care of us at Beilinson, but there’s nothing like home after a year and a half,” said Cohen’s fiancée.
According to previous reports, Barak visited Epstein at least 36 times between 2013 and 2017.
If the terrorist group has not agreed to the U.S. bridging proposal by its next meeting, the Israeli Security Cabinet “will convene and decide on the next steps,” said a spokesman for the Israeli premier.
Humanitarian aid “became the number one budget income for Hamas in Gaza,” Jerusalem’s top diplomat charged.
Syrian media outlets reported that an Israeli strike had hit an “air defense base” belonging to Assad’s former army.
“The media are not news channels; they are fake channels,” said the Israeli prime minister during a Knesset debate.
“May redemption come soon and with mercy,” said Berger’s mother, Merav.
If the terrorists don’t release hostages, “there will be additional consequences, which I will not detail here,” said the prime minister.
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a press conference with Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez after their meeting at La Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Sept. 19, 2024. Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images.
Pay-for-slay to continue, ‘even if we have [only] one penny left,’ Abbas vows
The Fatah Revolutionary Council vowed to “double its efforts” to support terrorist prisoners.
“The communities in Judea and Samaria are the protective wall of most of the State of Israel,” said Defense Minister Israel Katz.
Great-grandson Merrill Eisenhower will participate in the 2025 March of the Living on Yom Hashoah, set to be marked on April 23-24.
The arrest is said to have taken place two days after the Nov. 6-7 pogrom in the Dutch capital.