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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.

Romi Gonen, Doron Steinbrecher and Emily Damari are the first captives to be released by Hamas as part of the release deal.
Qatar “will use all available means to exert pressure on Israel to return [the situation] to what it was before,” the Syrian Islamist leader claimed.
Senior Hamas official Khalil al-Hayya also thanked Turkey, South Africa, Algeria, Russia, China, Malaysia, Indonesia, Belgium, Spain and Ireland for their support.
The U.S. president-elect said his team “will continue to work closely with Israel and our allies to make sure Gaza never again becomes a terrorist safe haven.”
Ohad Tal, who chairs the Religious Zionism Party’s Knesset faction, made the comment at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida.
Tamar Edri’s apartment was hit by a terrorist rocket mere hours before a ceasefire went into effect.
The suspects were arrested in Nablus with loaded M-16 rifles and ammunition in their possession.
Activists called on Defense Minister Israel Katz to allow Jews to rebuild and live in the community, which was destroyed in the 2005 disengagement.
The shops must be shuttered as “a clear message to our enemies, and to us, that our blood is not [shed] in vain,” said Mayor Oziel Vatik.
“Poland is a safe country and any leader visiting Poland is entitled to protection granted by the Ministry of the Interior,” Warsaw told JNS.
The freeze follows a “situational assessment” in the wake of Monday’s deadly shooting in western Samaria.
The Israeli branch, which is a legally independent organization, has publicly rejected claims that the IDF is perpetrating genocide in Gaza.