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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.

“There are more than 1.5 million people who have grown up for generations with hate for Israel and antisemitism,” the Israeli finance minister told JNS.
The release of the first seven Israeli hostages brought the U.S. president to tears, said his Mideast envoy.
The Lebanese army’s intelligence chief for Southern Lebanon reportedly handed Hezbollah secrets from inside a war room run by the U.S., France and UNIFIL.
Israel Defense Forces soldiers reportedly fired warning shots toward the Hezbollah supporters.
“I believe we will reach an understanding,” said Israeli envoy to the U.S. Michael Herzog.
Troops moved to close the area until bomb disposal experts could neutralize the suspicious object, the IDF told JNS.
Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati told local media that the IDF redeployment could be delayed by “several days.”
Israel has not agreed to hand the crossing over to the P.A., but the Authority has some “practical involvement” in running it, that will be re-evaluated in the future, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office.