Ofir Akunis
“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.”
“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.
“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.
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.”
“Sadly, someone here listened to the chants of ‘intifada, intifada,’” said the Israeli consul general in New York.
“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.
“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.
“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.
“Hamas tortured, starved and brutalized the Israeli hostages. Their suffering is unimaginable,” Ofir Akunis wrote on his official Instagram account.
“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.
An interview with Israel’s consul general in New York City.
Ofir Akunis spoke with JNS after he was one of those who addressed more than 600 attendees at an Oct. 7 memorial in Manhattan.