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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.

Services, liturgy and Shabbat spoke to Hannah Abitbul, now an observant Jew living with her husband and young son.
Binyamin Hamra asks Syria’s de facto leader to preserve the country’s Jewish heritage sites.
The offer came amid a national public outcry and an ongoing investigation into allegations of price gouging.
Eight soldiers serving at Urim died in the terrorist onslaught.
The winter storm also brought much-needed rain to the coastal areas and even a brief hailstorm to Tel Aviv.
The Ghetto Fighters’ House is experiencing a rebirth after a year of rocket attacks from Lebanon.
It comes as ties between the two countries plummeted to historic lows this year after the Brazilian president compared Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust.
The “Lighting up the North” project, which will see the menorah lit up across northern Israel over the holiday, “shows our strength and power as a nation for good,” said Israel Police bomb-disposal specialist Yossi Hod.