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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.

A traveler at Ben-Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on Jan. 4, 2022. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
Israel News
Israel imposes further airport restrictions following weekend missile attacks

“This is an inconvenience, but our commitment to human life is our top priority,” Transportation Minister Miri Regev explained in a statement.

Mar. 23, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Iranian security official Mohsen Fathi Zadeh, who received a call from the Mossad. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Mossad is calling senior Iranian commanders and pressuring them to stand aside
Mar. 22, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
Francesca Albanese
World News
Serbia blasts Albanese for ‘unacceptable interference’ after her latest criticism of Israel
Mar. 19, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
The Swiss Parliament in Bern, Dec. 10, 2008. Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Swiss parliamentarians vote to stop UNRWA funding
The decision, which passed by a vote of 99-88, still needs approval by the Swiss Senate.
Sep. 10, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
People take photos at a newly-built walkway and bike lane in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 27, 2024. Photo by Amanuel Sileshi/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel News
Two-day Africa-Israel Parliamentary Summit launches in Ethiopia
Lawmakers gather in Addis Ababa “to build on the Abraham Accords and pursue peace, progress and prosperity.”
Sep. 10, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Jews pray in a synagogue in Uman, Ukraine, before the start of Rosh Hashanah, Sept. 16, 2012. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
Jewish Life
Jewish pilgrims to Uman not allowed to connect in Moldova
Travelers will instead fly to Romania or Poland and proceed on the ground leg of their voyage from there.
Sep. 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The Old Town in Heidelberg, Oct. 1 2004. Photo by Reinhard Wolf via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
Couple attacked in Germany over T-shirt for Israeli hostages
The suspect told police he was “bothered” by the apparel.
Sep. 8, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The European Parliament. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
European Parliament moves to suspend PA funding over antisemitic textbooks
“Erasing all antisemitic content from education materials is among the first of many steps needed to establish civil society, professional education and proper economic structures in the Palestinian territories,” said Austrian MEP Lukas Mandl.
Sep. 5, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
US ambassador to Israel David Friedman speaks at the Jewish federation's General Assembly in Tel Aviv, on October 24, 2018. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Friedman: US pressure on Israel reduces chances of regional peace
The Biden administration thinks that such pressure improves the chances of Israel-Saudi peace, but it actually does the opposite, said the former ambassador to Israel.
Sep. 4, 2024
Alex Traiman
Western Wall Plaza
Israel News
Hundreds throng Western Wall to pray for unity, hostages
“We have many challenges and we need a lot of miracles, and for that we need prayer so that we may each find the holy component within our spirit.”
Sep. 3, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion and 6-year-old Achiya Zenilman on the first day of school in Jerusalem, Israel, Sept. 1, 2024. Achiya's father fell in combat in southern Gaza in December. Photo by Arnon Bosani.
Israel News
Jerusalem mayor accompanies bereaved first-grader to school
Achiya Zenilman, who began first grade in the city’s Neve Etzion School, lost his American-born father Master Sgt. (res.) Ari Yechiel Zenilman, 32, in the southern Gaza Strip in December.
Sep. 1, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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