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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 prayers and strength you sent accompanied us the entire way and helped us believe that this nightmare would eventually end.”
“We will not allow the arms of the Iranian octopus and radical Sunni Islam to endanger the lives of the [Israeli] residents and establish an eastern terrorist front against the State of Israel,” said the Israeli defense minister.
Two of the victims were moderately wounded and two lightly wounded • The terrorist, who was shot and killed at the scene, had entered Israel as a tourist just days earlier, and may have had an accomplice.
“The State of Israel will be able to return to the war on day 43" if talks fail during the first phase of the ceasefire, the Israeli finance minister told JNS.
The announcement came hours after one IDF soldier was killed and four others were injured, one seriously, by a roadside bomb in Samaria.
The president said Hamas terrorists ran the Strip “viciously and badly” and cannot be allowed to return to power.
“The one condition we have is that Hezbollah will go up to the Litani River,” Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid told JNS.
In 2023, the Jewish population in the territories liberated during the 1967 Six-Day War grew to 517,407.