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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 U.S. president said the contacts were “in depth, detailed and constructive,” and could lead to a “complete and total resolution” of the conflict.
As of Jan. 1, there were 517,407 Jews living in the area, not including eastern Jerusalem.
Biden’s frustration with Netanyahu has led White House aides to suggest that the president ramp up public criticism of the Jewish state.
Israel will reportedly dispatch negotiators to Cairo to discuss a new hostage release deal with U.S., Egyptian and Qatari officials.
Israeli War Cabinet convenes to review negotiations for hostages-for-ceasefire deal with Hamas • Eyes on northern border with Lebanon as Hezbollah escalates missile attacks.
“We are optimistic, and we have delivered the response to the Israeli party,” said Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, who is helping to negogiate a truce.
Bowing to Hamas will lead to another massacre and a “major disaster” that no Israeli citizen will tolerate, said the Israeli prime minister.
“Israel will not stop the fighting. Hamas’s response amounts to a negative answer,” Israeli officials said.
“The Israeli public is very troubled by the restrictions that the Biden administration has placed on us,” said the national security minister.