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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.

Israeli and Hungarian National flags are raised on the oldest Hungarian bridge, the Széchenyi Chain Bridge in Budapest, as preparations are under way for the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is scheduled for talks with Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and other senior Hungarian officials from April 2 to 6, 2025. Photo by Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel News
Hungary expected to announce embassy move to Jerusalem, withdraw from international court
The diplomatic moves would serve to strengthen the alliance between Hungary, Israel and the United States at a time of fractious divisions over foreign policy within the European Union.
April 2, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Ava Atzum Arévalo de Moscoso
Feature
Guatemalan ambassador to Israel gets more than she bargained for ... and that’s fine
Two years, an internal social upheaval and a major regional war later, Ava Atzum Arévalo de Moscoso says she is feeling right at home in the Jewish state, despite the turbulent times.
April 1, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
From left, Dick Schoof, prime minister of the Netherlands, Viktor Orban, prime minister of Hungary, and Luc Frieden, prime minister of Luxembourg, attend an European Council meeting in Brussels on March 20, 2025. Photo by Pier Marco Tacca/Getty Images.
Israel News
Netanyahu to meet Hungarian premier in Budapest
The visit, which comes at Orban’s invitation, follows the Hungarian leader’s rejection of last year’s ICC decision to seek Netanyahu’s arrest for alleged war crimes.
March 30, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
France's National Rally leader Jordan Bardella attends a conference organized by the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs and Combating Antisemitism, at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem on March 27, 2025. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Antisemitism
Trump’s stance on antisemitism a model for the world—Israeli minister
Much praise for the U.S. president at Jerusalem conference on the fight against Jew-hatred.
March 27, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Shelly Sarah, a 22 year old Israeli from Hadera, stops at the Western Wall stone on display at Israel's Ben-Gurion International airport before a trip to Thailand as her boyfriend looks on, March 25, 2025. Credit: Rina Castelnuovo.
Feature
Western Wall exhibit at Ben-Gurion airport sparks debate
The Israel Antiquities Authority is pushing back against the country’s chief rabbis’ objections to the display at the airport of a 2000-year old, 5-ton stone from Judaism’s holiest site.
March 27, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
UNRWA School
Israel News
Palestinian school curriculum glorifies violence, violating pledges to reform
“Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives,” study finds.
March 25, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee with Rabbinical Council for Peace leaders Rabbis Joseph Gerlitzky and Avraham S. Lewin. Credit: RCP.
U.S. News
Huckabee visits Lubavitcher Rebbe’s grave ahead of Israel posting
The former Arkansas governor, a staunch supporter of Israel, visited the site in Queens together with his wife, Janet.
March 24, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
El Al Airlines
Israel News
Israel plans international airport near Beersheva
A cross-party initiative envisions the facility being built five miles southeast of the capital of the Negev.
March 24, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
A group of American students visiting Israel on a trip dubbed the "Christian Birthright," March 20, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Passages.
Feature
Scores of US university students tour Israel on faith-based ‘Christian Birthright’ trip
“Everything I experienced allows me to be a witness for Israel,” said engineering student Daniel Jeon about his Passages trip.
March 21, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Dome of the Rock on Jerusalem's Temple Mount
Israel News
Rare Pakistani delegation visits Israel
One of the trip participants said she was “not surprised to find the complete opposite” of what the Muslim world had told her about the Jews.
March 19, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Ephraim Mirvis
Israel News
European officials pull out of Israel’s antisemitism conference due to far-right political invitees
On the flip side, Natan Sharansky wrote on Facebook: “It is important for the fight against antisemitism to include all political camps—from left to right.”
March 18, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Mikayil Jabbarov, minister of economy of the Republic of Azerbaijan, at Baku Climate Action Week in the Heydar Aliyev Center, on Sept. 30, 2024. Photo by Aziz Karimov/Getty Images.
Israel News
Israel and Azerbaijan to ink strategic energy agreement
The Caucasus nation’s state oil company will explore for natural gas off the Israeli coast.
March 16, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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