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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.
Eyewitnesses said Tawfic Abdel Jabbar had been part of a group throwing rocks at passing cars on Route 60 in Samaria.
The combat in the Hamas stronghold is expected to last at least several days.
Relatives of Israelis held in Gaza disrupt a Knesset committee session.
In exchange for freeing the hostages, Hamas demands an end to the war and the release of terrorists captured on Oct. 7.
Earlier this week, the Israeli defense minister signaled the impending end to heavy combat operations in Gaza.
Palestinian terrorists in Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley have killed five civilians and wounded many others since Oct. 7.
Israel believes the Islamist group built between 350 and 450 miles of subterranean terror infrastructure.
Effective immediately, the terror master’s financial assets in E.U. member states will be frozen.