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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.

The oldest Jewish "siddur" ever found is part of the Green Collection, which will be donated to the future international Bible museum in Washington, D.C. Credit: The Green Collection.
Culture and Society
Israeli university uses AI to decipher ancient Hebrew, Aramaic texts
Engineering students at Ben-Gurion University are employing Mask Language Modeling to get to the bottom of damaged, centuries-old inscriptions.
April 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
These immigrants to Israel from around the world appear in a video accompanying the April 2024 launch of the Belong aliyah concierge service company. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
New private company offers concierge service to ‘olim’
Belong seeks to supplement the efforts of the Jewish Agency and Nefesh B’Nefesh.
April 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Evacuees in Eilat
Israel News
27,000 Israeli evacuees from border areas remain in hotels
The number represents a steep drop from the 90,000 Israelis who were sheltered in hotels after Oct. 7 massacre, even as the war against Hamas in Gaza rages on and amid a volatile situation on Israel’s northern border.
April 7, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Azerbaijan Tourism Board CEO Florian Sangeschmidt at the Israeli Tourism Expo in Tel Aviv, April 3, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Azerbaijan pushes for increased Israeli tourism
The wartime tourism push by the predominantly Shi’ite Muslim country is the latest sign of the burgeoning ties between the two countries.
April 5, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The cover of "Human Rights," a compilation of stories by 40 young Jews from around the world. Credit: Courtesy.
Jewish Life
New book compiles young Jews’ human rights stories
The project seeks to highlight the minimizing of Jews’ human rights amid surging antisemitism in the wake of Oct. 7.
April 3, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Stefan Tompson
Israel News
An unabashedly pro-Israel social-media platform in the non-Jewish world
“It is absolutely shocking how the mainstream media has given an unashamedly biased level of legitimacy to Hamas,” says Stefan Tompson.
April 3, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
In Tel Aviv are, from left, philanthropist Sylvan Adams, singer-songwriter Noa Kirel and Make-A-Wish Israel founder Denise Bar-Aharon, March 31, 2024. Photo by Shauli Lendler.
Israel News
Sylvan Adams named goodwill ambassador for Make-A-Wish Israel
The NGO is now helping children with multi-system trauma that were physically injured in the Hamas massacre
April 1, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Rev. Peter Fast, head of the evangelical Christian organization Bridges for Peace, visits the southern Israeli city of Sderot. (Courtesy Bridges for Peace)
Israel News
‘Most evangelical Christians intimidated into silence’ on Israel-Hamas war, pastor says
Rev. Peter Fast: “The world is forgetting the events of Oct. 7 and minimizing them. We must speak up.”
March 29, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen (left) and his Cypriot counterpart George Papanastasiou at the Reading Power Station in Tel Aviv, on March 27, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Israel-Greece-Cyprus energy deal ‘top priority’ this year
The three allies plan to link their electrical grids and cooperate on natural gas.
March 28, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Yaakov Lubinewski, 99, tends the graves of two Israeli soldiers from his town killed during Hamas's Oct. 7 massacre, March 26, 2024. Credit: Rina Castelnuovo.
Feature
99-year-old Holocaust survivor tends graves of soldiers killed on Oct. 7
Yaakov Lubinewski “made it clear to us that there is something to live for,” said former Israeli minister Izhar Shay, whose son Yaron was killed in combat during Hamas’s invasion of southern Israel.
March 27, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Czech Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova (center) takes a break from picking zucchinis and cherry tomatoes at Moshav Mivtahim near the southern Gaza Strip, March 29, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of the Embassy of the Czech Republic.
Israel News
Reaction to Hamas massacre shows lessons of Holocaust not learned, Czech envoy says
“The inability to differentiate between the attacker and the defender is absolutely stunning,” Ambassador Veronika Kuchynova Smigolova tells JNS.
March 21, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
Israel News
Australian lawmakers slam government for renewing UNRWA funding
“The decision to resume funding to UNRWA without any independent findings is an appalling affront to the people of Israel and to Jewish Australians,” says Australian MP Andrew Wallace.
March 18, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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