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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.

Passengers at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, May 4, 2025. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Israel News
Air India to resume flights to Israel in January
The Indian flag carrier will offer five weekly nonstop flights from Delhi to Tel Aviv starting on Jan. 1.
Nov. 5, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Sharon Stoliar at an aliya fair in Australia last week. Credit: Scott Ehler, October 26, 2025.
Feature
A Sri Lankan-born pastor’s daughter becomes a voice against antisemitism in Australia
“I thought antisemitism was from World War Two days, and that Hitler is gone. I didn’t even know it existed today,” Sharon Stoilar told JNS.
Nov. 4, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Troy Miller
Israel News
US National Religious Broadcasters to host 2026 conference in Jerusalem
“Despite the noise of elitists, overwhelmingly the Christian community in the U.S. is holding firm in support of Israel,” NRB head Troy Miller tells JNS.
Nov. 3, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
A delegation of prominent African Christian leaders visiting the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, Judea, Oct. 28, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Deputy Foreign Minister's Office.
Israel News
Israel heightens diplomatic outreach to African Christians
“There is an environment of intellectual terrorism against Israel in the African Union,” said the Roman Catholic chaplain to the A.U.
Nov. 3, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Delta Air Lines
Israel News
Delta to resume flights to Tel Aviv from Atlanta and Boston in 2026
The Atlanta-based carrier already renewed service to Israel from New York City in September.
Oct. 31, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Amichai Chikli
Israel News
Diaspora Affairs Minister draws a direct line from 2005 Gaza pullout to Oct. 7
“We betrayed the land of Israel when we withdrew from Gaza, and the land of Israel did not forget,” Amichai Chikli, Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, said at a conference on Judea and Samaria.
Oct. 29, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Gideon Sa'ar
Israel News
Israel’s foreign minister: Americans also have doubts about peace plan
Still, “they think we should give it a try,” Gideon Sa’ar said at “The Future of Judea and Samaria” conference in Jerusalem.
Oct. 29, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Ezra Cohen
World News
Panama launches parliamentary Israel caucus
“Nations must decide whether they stand with truth, democracy, and the forces of progress, or with the forces of hate and distortion,” said Panama’s Ambassador to Israel Ezra Cohen.
Oct. 28, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Avi Lewis
World News
‘You have to want it': Australian immigrant returns to Melbourne to tell his Israeli story
“I feel the prosperity of the Jewish people walks hand in hand with the success of the State of Israel,” said Avi Lewis.
Oct. 27, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Participants at an aliya fair in Melbourne, Australia which included a focus on medical professionals. Credit: Scott Ehler, October 26, 2025.
Israel News
100 Australian doctors prepare to immigrate to Israel
The MedEx event held in Melbourne and Sydney, comes as Israel expands global efforts to recruit physicians from abroad.
Oct. 26, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
An American Airlines passenger plane parked at a gate at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Arlington, Va., on Aug. 24, 2025. Photo by Daniel Slim/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel News
American Airlines returning to Israel in March
The carrier will offer daily non-stop service from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Oct. 24, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Newly-elected Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leader Sanae Takaichi celebrates after winning the LDP leadership election on Oct. 4, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. Photo by Kim Kyung-Hoon - Pool/Getty Images.
Analysis
Japan’s first female premier expected to further ties with Israel
“When Japan looks to the outside world it always looks at the United States,”
Oct. 24, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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