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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.

The Israeli stock exchange was the second-fastest growing market in the world last year after Argentina.
The skeleton of a five-year-old girl who lived 140,000 years ago, and which has characteristics of both species, was found in a prehistoric cave in northern Israel.
“I thought I had seen it all, but being attacked on the train tracks into Auschwitz is a whole new low,” said Los Angeles native Charlotte Korchak.
“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.
“A small group of people is using the excuse of the war in Gaza to target the Jews,” museum director Marco Gonzalez told JNS.
JNS has learned that Sharren Haskel is also expected to visit South Sudan in the first official Israeli delegation to the country.
The Israeli airline’s first-ever direct route between Tel Aviv and Hanoi launching this winter bypasses flag carrier El Al.
“Our goal is not to occupy Gaza but to free Gaza,” says PM.