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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.

“If it were up to you—in the opposition, the TV studios, the former officials—you would have given up a long time ago,” the PM said at the Knesset.
“Lebanon will be an unreturnable hell for the Zionists,” interim Iranian foreign minister Ali Bagheri Kani told “Newsweek.”
“The Secret Service and other agencies are constantly receiving new potential threat information and taking action,” a spokesperson told JNS.
The sanctioned Israelis are Moshe Sharvit, Zvi Bar Yosef, Isaschar Manne, Bentzi Gopstein and Baruch Marzel.
“We acknowledge that there was a data error in our recent listing,” a State Department spokesperson told JNS.
UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who is in the Jewish state for meetings with Israeli and Palestinian leaders, in 2019 called the Israeli premier “petty, small and vindictive.”
Israel “has engaged in systematic state terrorism,” the Turkish leader charged.
The Biden administration urged the Israeli government to take “immediate” steps to hold the accused to account.
The investigation shows that “the security forces did not provide sufficient warning to the residents of Be’eri about the infiltration of terrorists during the first hours of the terrorist attack.”
The parties have reportedly indicated approval of a plan in which neither Israel nor Hamas would rule the Strip.
“There’s no such thing as murdering a Nukhba terrorist—there’s only eliminating terrorists,” one of the suspects said.