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      <title>American Friends of Magen David Adom gala honors Meghan McCain</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“To be recognized for something that I’m just doing naturally feels wonderful,” McCain told JNS. “But it also feels confusing, because I just feel like it’s something everyone should be doing.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 13:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>'700 days in hell,' Israeli consulate campaign in Times Square says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["The return of the 48 hostages and the complete removal of Hamas from Gaza are the necessary conditions for ending this war," stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 16:21:50 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Nadler gave 'distorted picture' of Oct. 7, conflict in Gaza, per Israeli consul NY</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["What is for Israelis and for the Palestinians a tragedy is, for Hamas, a deliberate and calculated strategy," Ofir Akunis wrote to Rep. Jerry Nadler in a letter that JNS obtained.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 18:35:16 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israel ‘deeply impressed’ by Queens College response to Jew-hatred</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Ofir Akunis, Israeli consul general in New York, thanked the public school's president “for not remaining silent and for standing up for truth and facts.”]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 23:07:38 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Killing of Israeli embassy staffers ‘direct result’ of campus riots, Akunis says</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[“Sadly, someone here listened to the chants of ‘intifada, intifada,’” said the Israeli consul general in New York.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 18:52:15 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>After seven years, Israel’s Independence Day event returns to New York City</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Vita Fellig]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[“For a Zionist and a Jew, Yom Ha’atzmaut is the most important holiday on the Jewish calendar,” Ofir Akunis, the consul general in New York, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 22:40:17 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli UN mission, NY consulate release dozens of balloons for Bibas family</title>
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      <description><![CDATA["The balloons floated symbolically above the U.N. building—a stark reminder of the institution’s failure to formally condemn Hamas’s atrocities on Oct. 7 and its barbaric treatment of hostages," Jonathan Harounoff stated.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:09:31 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Mobile ad campaign in Manhattan marks 500 days of hostages in Gaza</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Izzy Salant]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[“They are being kept under horrific, inhumane conditions in tunnels beneath Gaza. We demand: Let them go,” stated Ofir Akunis, consul general of Israel in New York.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2025 23:01:51 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli consulate ad in Times Square raises awareness of hostages</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Izzy Salant]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[“Hamas tortured, starved and brutalized the Israeli hostages. Their suffering is unimaginable,” Ofir Akunis wrote on his official Instagram account.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 12 Feb 2025 20:15:07 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Israeli consul general in NY, Rabin’s granddaughter mark 29 years since prime minister’s assassination</title>
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      <dc:creator><![CDATA[Menachem Wecker]]></dc:creator>
      <description><![CDATA[“Prime Minister Rabin taught us all the importance of living a life of values, of exercising courage and of eternally yearning for peace,” Ariella Rada, a spokeswoman for the consulate, told JNS.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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