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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.

Named for the region next to the border with Gaza and run by residents of Re’im, the shop is an homage to a kibbutz resident and chocolatier murdered that day.
“Look, if I hadn’t lost my leg, I wouldn’t have met her,” says Daniel Kopylov of his partner Danielle Yablonka. “Good things come out of bad.”
The coinciding of the release of the list with the start of the Feast of Tabernacles is symbolic to those inspired by the Biblical verse Zechariah 14:16.
“Austria has undergone a gradual but clear journey in coming to terms with the past,” says Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan.
The annual weeklong evangelical show of support for Israel is about to start
The exhibition, titled “Torn from Life: The Fate of Austrian Jews After the Anschluss in 1938,” comes amid a surge of antisemitism in Europe.
Ties nosedived after Poland’s previous government enacted a law in 2021 that was seen by Israel as whitewashing the country’s role in the Holocaust.
The 350-strong delegation attending the 14-day demonstration of solidarity includes religious and government leaders from 80 countries.