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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.

From left, MK Sharren Haskel, former UNRWA legal adviser James G. Lindsay, Mindset-PCS managing director Ophelie Namiech and University of Reading Professor Rosa Freedman at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2024. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Israel can refuse UNRWA access to Gaza, says ex-agency legal adviser
“Some donor nations, probably led by the U.S., could defund and in whole or in part end UNRWA,” says James Lindsay.
March 17, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli President Isaac Herzog at Western Wall Speech March for Israel
Israel News
Israeli president lauds African countries for diplomatic support
The president stressed the importance of Israel’s relations with nations across Africa in a meeting with the three new ambassadors, from Equatorial Guinea, Burundi and Eswatini.
March 14, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Sheikha Moza bint Nasser
Israel News
Sara Netanyahu appeals to mother of Qatar emir for hostage release
“Nineteen women are enduring unimaginable hardships” in Gaza, the prime minister’s wife wrote.
March 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Heydar Aliyev International Airport in Baku, Azerbaijan. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Azerbaijan to resume Israel flights
The carrier will operate three weekly flights this month, and increase it to nine starting in April.
March 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Gavel
Israel News
Survivors sue UNRWA USA for funding Hamas terrorism
The plaintiffs seek damages and a determination that UNRWA USA breached its legal obligations under federal anti-terror laws.
March 10, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Supernova festival massacre
Israel News
Bedouin policeman who saved partygoers from Hamas to run Jerusalem Marathon
Sgt. First Class Remo Salman El-Hozayel saved hundreds of innocents at the Supernova music festival on Oct. 7.
March 7, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Gideon Taylor
Antisemitism
Most countries refuse to budge on Shoah art restitution
More than 100,000 items have not been returned to their rightful owners.
March 6, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The heads of the USC Shoah Foundation near the Gaza border in southern Israel on Wed., March 6, 2024. Credit: Menachem Shloss,
Antisemitism
USC Shoah Foundation: We’re in most dangerous era for Jews since Holocaust
“I didn’t think it would ever be this bad,” said USCSF executive director Robert J. Williams.
March 6, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The annual March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Poland, April 28, 2022. Photo by Aloni Mor/MOTL.
Israel News
Israeli youth trips to Poland to resume this summer
The annual trips were canceled in November due to the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war and concern over rising antisemitism in Europe.
March 6, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Philippe Lazzarini
Israel News
Israeli intel minister: End UNRWA once and for all
The remarks come amid mounting evidence implicating UNRWA employees in Hamas’s Oct. 7 massacre, and an unprecedented diplomatic battle over the future of the organization.
March 5, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Foreign Minister Israel Katz (left) and Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Meyer at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial museum in Jerusalem, Feb. 19, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Israeli FM: UNRWA anti-Israel report ‘swan song of Hamas mission to UN’
The U.N. agency’s chutzpah is without limit, Israel Katz said.
March 4, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Brazilian parliamentarian Geovania de Sa with the Latin American Director at the Israel Allies Foundation Leopoldo Martinez at the organization’s annual conference in Jerusalem. Credit : Israel Allies Foundation.
Israel News
Brazilian lawmaker: Lula remarks desecrate Holocaust victims’ memory
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s remarks inflamed antisemitism and fueled intolerance, said Geovania De Sa in Jerusalem.
March 4, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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