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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.

Masa Israel Journey Ceremony
Israel News
‘We are one’: Israelis, world Jewry unite at Memorial Day ceremony
Huge banners with “we are one” hung from the stage of the ceremony held in the backdrop of the seven-month-old war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and an uptick in antisemitism worldwide.
May 13, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Shlomi Chetrit
Israel News
Israeli police academy displays armored vehicles destroyed on Oct. 7
“It brings me right back to the hours of that horrible day,” an Israeli police commander told JNS.
May 13, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
South Africa-based Nazareth Baptist Church
World News
South African Church pledges solidarity with Israel
“What was done by our government does not represent the people of South Africa,” says church leader Shembe.
May 13, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem Exhibit
Feature
‘From Darkness to Light’: Jerusalem exhibition tells story of women who survived Oct. 7
“We can never feel the pain of those families who lost loved ones, but the Jewish people are coming together as never before in strength as a family,” Denver-based philanthropist Larry Mizel, told JNS.
May 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
At the British Parliament in London are, from left, U.K. Special Envoy for Post-Holocaust Issues Lord Pickels, Israel Allies Foundation President Josh Reinstein, adviser to the U.K. Board of Trade Lord Hannan, MK Sharren Haskel, Lord Polak and Israel Allies Foundation Europe Director Leo van Doesburg, May 7, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Christian Allies Caucus offers UK legislators replacements for UNRWA
London will decide in two weeks whether it will resume funding to the terror-linked U.N. agency.
May 8, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
A cordless phone with a charging station that connects to a landline. Credit: 2ban/Shutterstock.
Israel News
Israelis rush to order phone landlines due to tensions with Iran
Customer orders for the setup are up 168% nationwide, 364% in Haifa.
April 19, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
UNRWA, Oct. 7
Israel News
‘Norwegian think tank conducting UN probe of UNRWA is anti-Israel’
Chr. Michelsen Institute staff justify the Oct. 7 attack and have ties with Hamas operatives.
April 18, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli President Isaac Herzog (left) and the Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan at the ceremony at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Yad Vashem.
Antisemitism
Herzog gives Talmud volume that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem
The Israeli leader’s grandfather was entrusted with the Pesachim Tractate after it was found in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich in 1945.
April 18, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Avida Bachar
Israel News
Be’eri farmer who lost his wife, son and leg on Oct. 7 returns to his fields
“We underwent a tragedy. But you can’t change the past; only the future,” says Avida Bachar.
April 17, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Palestinians bury relatives killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, Feb. 26, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas admits one-third of its data on Gazan deaths is ‘incomplete’
The acknowledgment raises anew questions about the veracity of the terrorist group’s claims about the war.
April 15, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
Israel News
Christian Allies Caucus presses Germany to keep funding freeze on UNRWA
It offered government officials alternatives to funnel humanitarian support to Palestinian civilians.
April 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israel-Premier Tech's Hugo Houle winning stage 16 of the 2022 Tour de France, July 19, 2022. Credit: Sprint Cycling.
Antisemitism
BDS threats to cancel Israeli cycling team an ‘obtuse moral inversion’
“These haters have it backward: On Oct. 7, it was Hamas that began a genocidal campaign of murder,” says Israel-Premier Tech co-owner Sylvan Adams.
April 10, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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