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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.

Jerusalem still wants to pursue a diplomatic path, said the Israeli foreign minister, adding however that the chances of negotiations being successful were “not huge.”
“Not for 24 hours, but for years,” civil rights attorney Leo Terrell warned.
A further hearing in the case against the Pink Floyd musician is set to take place at a later date.
Israelis lined the streets as Lifshitz’s casket made its way from the central city of Rishon Lezion to Nir Oz.
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara “crossed all the red lines, and the time has come to return power to the elected officials,” said the communications minister.
Several Arabs armed with clubs, knives and rocks attacked two shepherds in the Michmash area.
The Dutch government had sought to ban three Islamic “hate preachers,” but was overruled by a court in The Hague.
“On the 7th of October, not only Israeli citizens were murdered but also the idea that was mistakenly called ‘the two-state solution,’” said the Knesset speaker.
More than two in three Israeli Jews fear Palestinian terrorists based in the biblical heartland could commit such a bloodbath.
There were no reported injuries in the explosions, which the Israeli defense minister said was a “serious terrorist attacks attempted.”
Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani is “personally responsible for the Oct. 7th massacre,” charged Rabbi Pini Dunner.
Of these, 108 are expected to be deported to Egypt and from there to third countries.