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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.

The Israeli finance minister told JNS he would speak to Defense Minister Israel Katz about the prospect.
“I think we actually need to learn something from the U.S. The death penalty for terrorists. That’s what’s needed,” the national security minister said.
Some 25,000 residents were evacuated from the Galilee city during the cross-border fighting with Hezbollah after Hamas’s Oct. 7, massacre.
The Israeli prime minister told Fox News that “the point here is not to negotiate with Hamas,” adding: “Their job is to vanish.”
The Israeli finance minister also urged personal responsibility, warning Israelis against employing “dangerous” Palestinian illegals.
The Italian leader hosted Abbas at Chigi Palace just five weeks after their previous meeting there.
“This was a treacherous act of terror—an attack on community, on goodness and on light itself,” the Chabad Lubavitch movement said.
There is “zero difference in ideology” between slain Hamas terrorist leader Yahya Sinwar and Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa, said the Israeli Cabinet minister.