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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.

Israel attorney Moshe Frei on Mount Everest. Credit: courtesy
Jewish Life
Talmudic tractate completed on Mount Everest
Israeli attorney on trek with friends falls short of world record.
May 7, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Evangelical leaders advocating for Israel in Washington D.C. (From left to right: Bishop Robert Stearns of Eagles’ Wings Ministries, Susan Michaels from the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem and Jordanna McMillan of the Israel Allies Foundation.) Credit: Eagles’ Wings, May 4, 2026.
U.S. News
Hundreds of Christian and Jewish leaders to press faith-based diplomacy on Capitol Hill
Israel Advocacy Day brings together pastors and rabbis from more than 37 states to the nation’s capital at a time of increasing criticism of Israel on both sides of the political aisle.
May 5, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Raphael Mimoun and his wife Eva Cohen at a Paris event for medical professionals eyeing a move to Israel. Credit: Thierry Van Biesen, May 3, 2026.
World News
‘No future for Jews of France:’ Scores of French Jewish doctors prepare to immigrate to Israel
Nearly four of five French Jews feel unsafe, according to a recent survey.
May 4, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Palestinian children’s textbooks incite against Jews and Israel. Credit: IMPACT-se.
World News
European Parliament renews calls for PA funding freeze over textbook incitement
The E.U.’s executive body, the European Commission, has never imposed such a funding freeze despite the repeated resolutions passed by the European Parliament in Brussels over the last seven years.
April 30, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
The "Jusoor" logo: The Arabic says “Jusoor News: Voice of the People.”
Israel News
A maverick Arabic news outlet exposes Hamas’s abuse of Gazans
“Jusoor News” emerges as post-war “bête noire” for Islamic terror group still running half of Gaza.
April 29, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
A man attends a memorial at the site of the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney, Australia, Dec. 21, 2025. Photo by Audrey Richardson/Getty Images.
World News
Australian concert for Bondi Beach victims nixed after singers refuse to perform with Jews
April 28, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Christian soldiers serving in the Israel Defense Forces, April 26, 2026. Credit: GPO.
Israel News
Netanyahu meets Christians serving in the IDF
The meeting in Jerusalem came a week after the Israeli military jailed two soldiers for 30 days and removed them from combat duty for damaging a statue of Jesus in southern Lebanon.
April 27, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar (left) speaks with George Deek, special Envoy to the Christian world (date unknown). Credit: Courtesy of Israel's Foreign Ministry.
Israel News
Israel appoints its first Christian ambassador as envoy to Christian world
The newly created role at a time of global international turbulence seeks to buttress Israel’s relations with the Christian world.
April 23, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli El Al and Etihad Airways planes seen at the Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Feb. 20, 2022. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Emirati carriers among the first to return to Israel
The decision is seen as both a political and economic statement highlighting the strength of the Abraham Accords.
April 21, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
The Jewish Westhoffen cemetery near Strasbourg, eastern France, where 107 graves were found vandalized with swastikas and antisemitic inscriptions, Dec. 4, 2019. Photo by Patrick Hertzog/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
Less than a quarter of French Jews feel safe
Nearly half of European Jews and a third of North American Jews experienced antisemitism in the past year.
April 20, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Argentinian President Javier Milei meet in Jerusalem on April 19, 2026. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Israel News
Netanyahu: Fight against Iran is ‘not over yet’
Israeli and Argentine leaders, meeting in Jerusalem, sign “Isaac Accords” to promote ties between the Jewish state and Latin America and announce direct flights to Buenos Aires.
April 20, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Argentine President Javier Milei and Argentina’s ambassador to Israel, Axel Wahnish, pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on April 19, 2026. Credit: Argentina’s Embassy in Israel.
Israel News
Milei arrives in Israel amid war with Iran
The Argentine president will become the first foreign leader to light a torch at Israel’s official Independence Day event in Jerusalem, in recognition of his deep friendship with the Jewish people and the State of Israel.
April 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
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