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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.

Francesca Albanese
World News
Serbia blasts Albanese for ‘unacceptable interference’ after her latest criticism of Israel
Belgrade condemns the U.N. official’s remarks on its military ties with Israel, calling them beyond her mandate.
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
An Israir plane at the Ben Gurion International airport near Tel Aviv on Oct. 31, 2024. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Israel News
Israir cancels regularly scheduled flights until Passover
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Argentina's President Javier Milei speaks during a ceremony to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires that killed 29 people and wounded 200, at the Israeli Embassy Square in Buenos Aires on March 17, 2026. Photo by Juan Mabromata/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Milei: Argentina’s commitment to the United States and Israel is ‘unwavering’
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
French police walk above the peripherique circular road in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris, to take their positions after a gunman opened fire and took people hostage at the Hyper Cacher kosher grocery store on Jan. 9, 2015. Photo by Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
French textbooks found light on contemporary antisemitism
The 2012 Toulouse school shooting and the 2015 Hyper Cacher supermarket massacre are not on the curriculum.
May. 27, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Murex trunculus shells and coins depicting them from the Roman period. Credit: Courtesy of Ptil Tekhelet.
Features
The search for the biblical blue dye is told in a new visitor’s center
For about 1,400 years following the Muslim conquest of the Land of Israel, the identity of the sea creature used to make the dye was lost to the world.
May. 22, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
The Austrian Parliament building in Vienna. Credit: Jean Fonseca via Wikimedia Commons.
World News
Austria launching Israel parliamentary caucus
“In an era of rising antisemitism, it is vital to have strong and reliable allies by our side,” said Austrian Parliament member Andreas Minnich.
May. 20, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Delta Air Lines
Israel News
Delta resumes flights to Israel
The Atlanta-based airline confirmed to JNS that it will restart daily nonstop service between New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport and Tel Aviv.
May. 20, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
King Abdullah of Jordan
Israel News
Jordanian textbooks justify Hamas Oct. 7 massacre
A study by IMPACT-se found that textbooks “promote antisemitism, glorify violent jihad, and express strong hostility toward homosexuality.”
May. 20, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
The “simultaneous triple independent runway operation,” in which three airplanes can land or take off at the same time on completely independent runways, has started at Istanbul Airport on April 17, 2024 in Istanbul, Türkiye. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/dia images via Getty Images.
World News
Turkish citizen to be tried for visiting Israel
Umut Ataseven was arrested, fired from his job at Turkish Airlines and forbidden to travel abroad after posting the picture in a WhatsApp group during an April visit to Israel.
May. 19, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (right) and Israel President of the World Jewish Congress Sylvan Adams at a WJC conference in Jerusalem, May 18, 2025. Credit: Shauli Lendner.
Israel News
US ambassador to Israel: Iran has not kept its word for 46 years
Even if Iran agrees to curtail its nuclear program, said Ambassador Mike Huckabee, “do we believe them?”
May. 19, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli addresses Christian supporters of Israel from the Germany- based March of Life organization at a gathering at the Knesset, May 13, 2025. Credit: Knesset Christian Allies Caucus.
Israel News
Christian antisemitism behind European leaders’ stance on Israel, says German evangelical leader
Christian antisemitism “shows itself in indifference and refusal to take a clear stance on Israel,” said Pastor Jobst Bitter, founder of the March for Life movement.
May. 15, 2025
Etgar Lefkovits
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