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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.

A British Airways Boeing 777-23(ER) lands at Heathrow Airport, London, Aug. 10, 2025. Photo by John Keeble/Getty Images.
Israel News
British Airways, Iberia to resume Israel flights next week
Scandinavian Airlines is also returning to Israel next week after nearly a decade, with thrice weekly service from Copenhagen to Tel Aviv, while the German low-cost carrier Eurowings will restart flights to Tel Aviv next week as well.
Oct. 22, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Former US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman with American pastor Larry Huch at the Knesset's Christian Allies Caucus. Credit: Courtesy, October 21, 2025.
Israel News
Friedman: Trump took 10 million Israelis out of trauma
Trump’s Oct. 13 address to the Knesset was “the most important speech of my lifetime,” said the former U.S. ambassador.
Oct. 22, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Mark Walker, Rabbi David Hofsteder
U.S. News
Trump nominee for religious freedom ambassador to be ‘tip of spear’ against Jew-hatred
“We have to be bold and call out names,” Mark Walker said. “You never see something eradicated by being ambiguous or vague.”
Oct. 20, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
A whale shark on April 8, 2017, in Maldives, Indian Ocean. Photo by Alexis Rosenfeld/Getty Images.
Israel News
Rare whale shark that drew crowds in Israel meets grisly end in Gaza
The animal was caught by Palestinian fishermen and butchered, with video circulating on social media showing crowds of Gazan men in Khan Yunis pulling the enormous fish ashore.
Oct. 20, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel on a visit to the Philippines. Credit: Lloyd Cruz Santos/ Chronos & Kairos Studio, October 19, 2025.
Israel News
Israeli deputy FM kicks off historic visit to Pacific
The six-day diplomatic trip starts in the Philippines and will conclude in New Zealand.
Oct. 19, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel attends an Elnet conference in Germany marking five years since the Abraham Accords, Oct. 16, 2025.. Credit: Ruthe Zuntz.
Israel News
Israel’s deputy FM: Turkey and Qatar hold the key to peace in Gaza
The recent internecine Palestinian killings highlighted the need to move to the next stage of the Trump peace deal, Sharren Haskel told JNS.
Oct. 17, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
American Pastor Larry Huch at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Oct. 17, 2025. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
US evangelical leader calls to ‘shut down’ Owens and Carlson
Pastor Larry Huch senses an “awakening” following the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, which he believes will see renewed support for Israel.
Oct. 17, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Lebanese-born social-media activist Haleli Truman with her husband, Mai, as he heads out to military reserve service, Oct. 14, 2025. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo
Feature
Lebanese-born, pro-Israel activist marries IDF paratrooper who fought Hezbollah
“I grew up here, Israel is my home and Israel safeguarded us,” said Haleli Truman, who fled to the Jewish state with her family after the Israeli pullout from Lebanon in 2000.
Oct. 16, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Released hostage Evyatar David arrives at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikvah, Oct. 13, 2025. Photo by Yossi Aloni/Flash90.
Israel News
Hostages describe torture and torment in Gaza
Many were beaten, starved and isolated for two years.
Oct. 15, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Hundreds of Christians march for Israel in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi on Tuesday. Credit: Courtesy, Svein Kristiansen/ Africa Israel Initaitive, October 7, 2025.
Israel News
Hundreds of Kenyans march for Israel in Nairobi
Faith-based show of support on the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught.
Oct. 9, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Conservative political commentator, media host and columnist Ben Shapiro speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Md., February 2018. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Ben Shapiro ascribes global radicalism to loss of biblical values
A Bible-based society is inclined to retrospection and contrition and therefore more susceptible to external pressure, the U.S. political commentator said in Jerusalem.
Oct. 8, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Adi Baruch
Feature
Bringing new life to Israel: In memory of Adi Baruch
To commemorate her life, a wedding canopy has been created incorporating fabric from her IDF uniform.
Oct. 7, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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