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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.

A scheduled meeting between U.S. and P.A. officials to discuss the latter’s counter-terror operation in Jenin has also been postponed.
Khalil Jabarin is set to be deported and permanently banned from re-entering Israeli territories.
The move came two weeks after laws banned the aid agency for Palestinians from Israel, ending its decades-long presence in some facilities.
Jerusalem will demand the complete disarmament of Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups, the Israeli foreign minister stressed.
After the Cabinet meeting, “the team will receive instructions for the continuation of the negotiations regarding the second stage,” the PMO said.
The ceasefire deal includes the release of “terror experts” who “killed hundreds of Israelis and wounded thousands,” the Cabinet minister said.
Egypt has constructed military bases in Sinai “that can only be used for offensive operations,” the Israeli ambassador to the United States confirmed.
Yousef al-Otaiba, the UAE ambassador to the United States, said Abu Dhabi was “going to try” to find common ground with the U.S. preisdent but called the plan “difficult.”
The two planned “a shooting at a military facility and a combined ramming and shooting attack targeting IDF soldiers or civilians,” authorities said.
The Israeli Security Agency (Shin Bet) has revealed that at least 82% of the Palestinians freed in November 2023 returned to terror.
IDF forces eliminated the shooter following an exchange of fire.
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Swell of Arabs in Israeli health care since 2010, study suggests
Arabs make up nearly half of Israeli pharmacists and are also heavily represented in nursing and dentistry, per new research.