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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.

Kaja Kallas is set to replace an international representatives whose tenure was marked by constant clashes with the Israeli government.
The brigade-level exercise included “extreme scenarios” and “combat in complex and mountainous terrain,” according to the military.
Terrorists reportedly detonated a secondary charge when Israeli forces attempted to rescue an APC disabled by an IED in the Jenin Camp.
Islamic Jihad terrorist and Doctors without Borders staffer Fadi al-Wadiya, who according to the IDF was involved in developing missiles for the Iranian proxy, was killed in a strike in Gaza City.
The clip shows the abduction of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Eliya Cohen and Or Levy.
The Belgium capital refused to host the home match, “given the dramatic situation in the Middle East” and possible protests in the city.
A spokesperson for the activist group told JNS that another organization had claimed responsibility for torching the trucks.
A Hezbollah terrorist official told Al Jazeera that the attack marked “the largest and most comprehensive attack” since Oct. 8.
“It was an easy decision to enter the government, but the decision to leave was very difficult,” said Gantz.
Khaled Doudin in Hebron has accused Israel of initiating the current war with Hamas and expressed “respect” for terrorists incarcerated in Israel.
The U.S. State Department “unequivocally rejects dehumanizing and inflammatory language, regardless of who is targeted by such rhetoric,” a spokesperson said.
Hospitals saw two to five times more cases of the rare condition in the wake of Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre.