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Etgar Lefkovits is a correspondent in the Israel bureau of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate).

Etgar Lefkovits

Etgar Lefkovits is an award-winning international journalist who is an Israel correspondent and feature news writer at JNS. A native of Chicago, he has two decades of experience in journalism having served as Jerusalem correspondent in one of the world’s most demanding positions. He is now based in Tel Aviv.

Delta Air Lines
Delta pushes back flights to Israel until September
Israel’s wartime restrictions on the country’s airspace are tentatively in place through April 16.
Mar. 25, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
The president of the National Congress of Honduras, Tomás Zambrano, and the Latin America director of the Israel Allies Foundation, Leopoldo Martinez, on March 23, 2026. Credit: Courtesy.
World News
Honduran congressional leader lauds war against Iran as a global game-changer
José Tomás Zambrano says U.S.–Israel campaign could weaken Tehran’s terror reach in Central and South America.
Mar. 24, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
The dispatch room at the Magen David Adom national operations center in Ramla fields both routine emergency calls as well as reports of injuries from Iranian missile attacks, March 18, 2026. Credit: MDA.
Feature
Missiles and medical emergencies all in a day’s work
Dispatchers at Magen David Adom’s fortified national operations center in Ramla juggle routine calls alongside red alerts during the war with Iran.
Mar. 24, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
A traveler at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Jan. 4, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
Israel News
Israel imposes further airport restrictions following weekend missile attacks

“This is an inconvenience, but our commitment to human life is our top priority,” Transportation Minister Miri Regev explained in a statement.

Mar. 23, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Iranian security official Mohsen Fathi Zadeh, who received a call from the Mossad. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Mossad is calling senior Iranian commanders and pressuring them to stand aside
Hundreds of phone calls are being made by Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, along with targeted assassinations of top regime leaders.
Mar. 22, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Francesca Albanese
World News
Serbia blasts Albanese for ‘unacceptable interference’ after her latest criticism of Israel
Belgrade condemns the U.N. official’s remarks on its military ties with Israel, calling them beyond her mandate.
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
An Israir plane at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Israel News
Israir cancels regularly scheduled flights until Passover
El Al previously announced that it would not operate any regularly scheduled flights until the end of next week.
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people and wounded 200, at the Israeli Embassy Square in Buenos Aires on March 17, 2026. Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Milei: Argentina’s commitment to the United States and Israel is ‘unwavering’
The Argentine leader’s comments come as the Latin American country assumes the rotating presidency of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Delta Air Lines
Israel News
International airlines extend Israel flight suspensions due to Iran war
Delta delays return of Tel Aviv route until June as damage from missile debris prompts renewed passenger limits and widespread cancellations
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Javier Milei, Genesis Prize
World News
Milei: No truce in the face of terrorism
Argentine president denounces Iran on 34th anniversary of Israeli embassy bombing
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
A butterfly clay bead from the Final Natufian period in Eynan-Mallaha (Upper Jordan Valley), colored red with ochre and marked with the fingerprints of the child (≈10 years old) who modeled it 12,000 years ago. Credit: Laurent Davin
Israel News
‘Children shaped clay 15,000 years ago in Israel’
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem reported that Natufian hunter-gatherers produced 142 beads and pendants uncovered by archaeologists.
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak speaks during a protest against judicial reform in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2023. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israel News
Complaint seeks police probe into Ehud Barak and Wexner Foundation
The eight-page criminal complaint was filed by a Likud lawmaker and an Israeli NGO after newly released documents suggested that Jeffrey Epstein was involved in payment made to the former Israeli premier
Mar. 17, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
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