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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.

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.
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.
Much praise for the U.S. president at Jerusalem conference on the fight against Jew-hatred.
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.
“Palestinian classrooms remain a breeding ground for extremism, with new educational materials reinforcing the same old dangerous narratives,” study finds.
The former Arkansas governor, a staunch supporter of Israel, visited the site in Queens together with his wife, Janet.
A cross-party initiative envisions the facility being built five miles southeast of the capital of the Negev.
“Everything I experienced allows me to be a witness for Israel,” said engineering student Daniel Jeon about his Passages trip.