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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.

“She shouted at me: ‘You’re Israeli, you piece of...” and other curses in English,” Oziel Vatik told JNS.
“The time for ambiguity is over: Jerusalem is Israel’s eternal capital,” said Likud lawmaker Dan Illouz.
The Israeli attacks reportedly coincided with a televised address by Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the terror organization’s most senior leader.
“New Israeli regulations mandate that all food items going into Gaza must be procured and packaged inside Israel,” a spokesperson for GHF told JNS.
Tokyo has been carrying out a “comprehensive assessment, including appropriate timing and modalities, of the issue of recognizing Palestinian statehood,” said Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya.
The “long arm” of the Israel Defense Forces will continue to target its enemies, said the Israeli defense minister.
A lawsuit in the United States accuses the rapporteur of smearing ministries as war criminals by claiming they enabled Israeli “genocide.”
Hamas is calling for Palestinians across Judea and Samaria to “escalate the confrontation,” stating that the intentional murder of civilians is “a natural response to the occupation’s crimes.”