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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.

Holocaust survivors Hannah Yakin, 93, and Ben Gazan, 83, who were separated for eight decades, embrace in Poland, April 13, 2026. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.
Feature
Reunited after 80 years, two child survivors light a memorial torch at Auschwitz
The daughter of a Dutch rescuer and the infant he saved meet at the March of the Living in Poland.
April 16, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
March of the Living
World News
Amid rising Jew-hatred, thousands march at Auschwitz on Holocaust memorial day
“We are becoming that legacy, we’re becoming that memory and it’s becoming our responsibility, our obligation to carry that memory on,” a Conservative rabbi from Charleston told JNS.
April 14, 2026
Jonathan D. Salant, Etgar Lefkovits
Antisemitism
World Jewish leader warns of second Holocaust
“I believed that the slogan of ‘Never Again’ truly meant never again. Well, I was wrong,” said WJC Israel president Sylvan Adams ahead of the March of the Living in Poland.
April 14, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Holocaust survivors from Israel visit Krakow, Poland, for the annual March of the Living, April 12, 2026. Photo by Yossi Zeliger.
World News
Despite war, a dozen Holocaust survivors from Israel join March of the Living in Poland
Survivors warn that rising global antisemitism echoes lessons the world still struggles to learn.
April 13, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Argentine President Javier Milei and Argentina's Ambassador to Israel Axel Wahnish pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, June 10, 2025. Photo courtesy of Argentina's Embassy in Israel.
Israel News
Milei selected to light torch at Israel’s Independence Day event in Jerusalem
Argentine president is the first foreign leader bestowed with such an honor.
April 10, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: mel_gama/Pixabay.
World News
Rio de Janeiro sees wave of antisemitic incidents during Passover
A deli refused to sell matzah to Brazilian Jewish chef Monique Benoliel, with the owner stating that he was “tired of Jews.”

April 7, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
A view of the Western Wall plaza in Jerusalem's Old City, where the traditional Priestly Blessing (Birkat Cohanim) is held during the Passover holiday under attendance restrictions due to the ongoing war, April 5, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Western Wall rabbi: Why is the right to protest more important than the right to prayer?
The question follows a controversial ruling by the Israeli High Court of Justice instructing the military to permit an anti-war protest on Saturday night in larger numbers than wartime restrictions on public gathering allow.
April 5, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Taxis waiting at Ben Gurion International Airport. July 21, 2025. Photo by Nati Shohat/FLASH90 *** Local Caption *** שדה תעופה בן גוריון טיול מונית מוניות חופש
Israel News
United pushes back Israel flights to September
Israel’s wartime restrictions on the country’s airspace are tentatively in place through April 16.
April 5, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
El Al
Israel News
El Al to launch direct flights to Argentina, starting this fall
The new non-stop service comes amid burgeoning relations between Jerusalem and Buenos Aires.
April 1, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
A view of the Western Wall plaza, largely empty and closed due to the ongoing war with Iran and Hezbollah and continued missile fire on Israel, Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Passover priestly blessing at Western Wall restricted due to war
Prayer notes calling for peace have been sent from Arab countries to the holy site in Jerusalem, and some even from Iran.
March 31, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
An apartment building in the southern Israeli city of Dimona that was damaged by an Iranian ballistic missile on March 21, as seen on March 29, 2026. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.
Feature
Wedding ring found in a home destroyed by an Iranian ballistic missile
David Azran believes that what goes around comes around, telling JNS: “There is a circle of energy.”
March 31, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Jason Greenblatt. Source: Twitter.
U.S. News
Former Trump Mideast envoy urges US control of Strait of Hormuz
Jason Greenblatt says that ground troops are also necessary to secure highly enriched uranium in Iran since the Islamic Republic is unlikely to do a deal.
March 26, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
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