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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.

Miss Israel Melanie Shiraz. Credit: Simon Soong
Israel News
‘Miss Israel’ decries ‘lies’ in Gaza war posts of ‘Miss Palestine’
“With a large following and reach, she spreads lies so easily disproven that they corrode credibility,” said Melanie Shiraz of social-media posts by Nadeen Ayoub.
Oct. 6, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia on Sept. 30, 2025. Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images.
U.S. News
Trump to receive top Israel Allies award
“Departing from decades of Washington appeasement policy and status quo, President Trump has reshaped the trajectory of the Middle East,” said Israel Allies Foundation U.S. director Jordanna McMillan.
Oct. 5, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Sharren Haskel
Antisemitism
Israeli deputy FM heading to Manchester
“We must state clearly that antisemitic incitement taking place in the UK is costing human lives,” Sharren Haskel said.
Oct. 3, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Thousands of Christian evangelists and Israelis march at a parade in center of Jerusalem, marking the Jewish holiday of Sukkot or the Feast of the Tabernacles, Oct. 4, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Christian Zionists head to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacles
The annual weeklong evangelical show of support for Israel is the largest solidarity mission to Israel since the war against Hamas started two years ago following the October 7 massacre.
Sept. 29, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Tourism Minister Haim Katz (right) and Tajikistani Committee for Tourism Development Chairman Jumakhonzoda Jamshed Jurakhon after signing the accord in Dushanbe, Sept. 18, 2025. Credit: Israeli Ministry of Tourism.
Israel News
Israel and Tajikistan sign tourism agreement in landmark visit
Tourism Minister Haim Katz makes first official visit by an Israeli Cabinet member to the Muslim country.
Sept. 22, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Figi Embassy in Jerusalem
Israel News
Fiji inaugurates embassy in Israel’s capital of Jerusalem
“The special bond with your great nation is deeply revered by the people of Fiji,” said Sitiveni Rabuka, prime minister of the archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean.
Sept. 17, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Members of the Japanese Israeli Allies Caucus meet in Tokyo on Tuesday. Credit: Israel Allies Foundation, September 16, 2025
Israel News
Head of US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation urges Japanese partnership
“If you care about the people of Gaza and you are betting on UNRWA solving the problem, it’s just not going to happen under these circumstances,” said GHF Executive Chairman Johnnie Moore.
Sept. 17, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Flags Planted by US Legislators in Negev Desert
Israel News
250 US legislators plant state trees in Negev, while seeing sites of Oct. 7
“Standing here, I couldn’t be prouder to be a Jew and a Zionist; to me, they are the same,” said Esther Panitch, a Democratic member of the Georgia House of Representatives.
Sept. 16, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Ashdod Memorial, Charlie Kirk
Israel News
Memorial art tributes to Charlie Kirk dot Israel
“We lost a very important person on the side of the good,” Israeli artist Dudi Shoval, who made a memorial mural, told JNS.
Sept. 16, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
US billionaire investor speaking at Haifa University on Sunday. Credit: Roy Hermoni, September 14, 2025.
U.S. News
Ackman: Cuomo likely to win NYC mayoral election in one-on-one race with Mamdani
Cuomo has a “more than 50 percent chance” of winning the city’s November mayoral race in a head–to-head race with front-runner Zohran Mamdani, said the U.S. hedge-fund billionaire.
Sept. 14, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Dutch MP Chris Stoffer addresses a meeting of the Israel Allies legislators at the legislature in The Hague, Sept. 10, 2025. Credit: Israel Allies Foundation.
Israel News
Israel allies in the Netherlands say Jerusalem losing the ‘information war’
People get their news from left-leaning NGOs, MP Chris Stoffer tells JNS.
Sept. 13, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
New York area law enforcement officials visit Kibbutz Kfar Aza, where Gazan terrorists murdered more than a hundred people and abducted others on Oct. 7, 2023, on Sept. 9, 2025. Photo by Alemu Abegaz.
Feature
Visiting New York law-enforcement officials study Israeli counter-terror initiatives
Senior police executives on government program struck by Israeli resilience.
Sept. 12, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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