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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.

Pakistani girls read in class at the Shiek Yasim relief camp school on May 25, 2009 in Mardan, Pakistan. Photo by Paula Bronstein/Getty Images.
Israel News
Pakistani textbooks rife with antisemitism, hostility to Jews, Israel, study finds
“Given Pakistan’s prominent regional role, its nuclear status, and large percentage of young people, this curriculum has far-reaching consequences,” said IMPACT-se CEO Marcus Sheff.
Aug. 18, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Police examine the anti-Israel graffiti and posters at the Museum of the Holocaust in Guatemala City, August 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Guatemala Holocaust Museum.
Israel News
Holocaust museum in Guatemala vandalized by anti-Israel activists
“A small group of people is using the excuse of the war in Gaza to target the Jews,” museum director Marco Gonzalez told JNS.
Aug. 14, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel with Nigerian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu on Aug. 12, 2025. Photo by Oluwasegun Afolabi.
Israel News
Israeli deputy FM visits Nigeria amid diplomatic push in Africa
JNS has learned that Sharren Haskel is also expected to visit South Sudan in the first official Israeli delegation to the country.
Aug. 12, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Arkia CEO Oz Berlowitz flanked by Thai Ambassador to Israel Boonyarit Vichienpuntu (L) and Vietnamese Ambassador to Israel Ly Duc Trung, August 12, 2025. Photo by Rafi Daloya.
Israel News
Arkia announces flights to Vietnam and Thailand
The Israeli airline’s first-ever direct route between Tel Aviv and Hanoi launching this winter bypasses flag carrier El Al.
Aug. 12, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Netanyahu
Israel News
Netanyahu: ‘No choice’ but to complete defeat of Hamas
“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza but to free Gaza,” says PM.
Aug. 10, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Wizz Air
Israel News
Wizz Air resumes flights to Israel
Ben-Gurion Airport sees busiest day since Oct. 7, 2023.
Aug. 8, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Hundreds of European rabbis to attend landmark convention in Azerbaijan
The biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis will discuss the expansion of the Abraham Accords to include Azerbaijan.
Aug. 5, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Tosha Bakery
Israel News
‘Returning home’: Israeli cafe near sea and Lebanese border reopens amid postwar renewal
“You have to be an optimist,” says Tomer Suissa, who co-manages the Tosha Bakery. “If you are not an optimist, you will not be here.”
Aug. 4, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-La.), speaker of the United States House of Representatives, at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Aug. 3, 2025. Credit: Western Wall Heritage Foundation.
Israel News
House speaker prays at Western Wall for US to ‘always stand with Israel’
“We are grateful for the privilege of being here in Israel today, on the day we recognize the destruction of the Temple twice in history,” Mike Johnson said.
Aug. 3, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
A view of the new visitor center at the Sataf Forest in the Jerusalem Hills, July 28, 2025. Photo by Lior Avitan.
Feature
Visitor center with French patisserie opens in Sataf Forest
The $4.5 million project seeks to make the historical and agricultural heritage of the site more accessible to visitors, with a boutique culinary experience.
July 29, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Netanyahu
Israel News
Netanyahu to Christian leaders: No starvation in Gaza
At an event in Jerusalem with White House Faith Office leader Paula White, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the U.N.'s “excuses and lies” with regard to the Gaza Strip.
July 28, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
A girl lights a candle during a mass commemorating late South African former president Nelson Mandela in Soweto, near Johannesburg, on Dec. 8, 2013. Photo by Pedro Ugarte/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Nelson Mandela Foundation spurs outrage by offering money to combat Christian Zionism
“The name of Nelson Mandela is being misused by ideological extremists to promote an aggressive anti-Israel agenda, under the guise of human rights,” said the South African Zionist Federation.
July 23, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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