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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.

The dispatch room at the Magen David Adom national operations center in Ramla fields both routine emergency calls as well as reports of injuries from Iranian missile attacks, March 18, 2026. Credit: MDA.
Feature
Missiles and medical emergencies all in a day’s work
Dispatchers at Magen David Adom’s fortified national operations center in Ramla juggle routine calls alongside red alerts during the war with Iran.
Mar. 24, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
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
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
Arnon Grunberg
Antisemitism
Dutch writer quits Belgian magazine over colleague’s ‘stab every Jew’ column
“I do not wish to publish alongside the revisionist,” Dutch writer Arnon Grunberg said in his resignation letter.
Aug. 14, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israel's Chief Rabbis David Lau (left) and Yitzhak Yosef (center) sell the state's chametz in Jerusalem ahead of Passover, April 21, 2024. They left their posts on June 30. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
High Court orders Chief Rabbinate to elect chief rabbis by Sept. 30
The justices’ ruling bypasses the dispute on appointing women to Israel’s Chief Rabbi Election Assembly.
Aug. 12, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The rapid blood infuser device instantly warms blood lost due to an injury, accident or transplant to 37 degrees Celsius, eliminates any air bubbles so there is not risk of an air embolism, and infuses up to a liter of blood per minute. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Life-saving medical device donated by American-Israeli treats soldiers wounded in Gaza
Belmont Medical Technologies founder Regina Herzlinger donated 50 rapid blood infuser devices to Israeli hospitals and trauma centers.
Aug. 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Herman Brusselmans and Lena
Antisemitism
Belgian publisher takes down ‘stab every Jew’ column amid outcry, lawsuit threat
The move is “much too little, much too late,” says EJA chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Aug. 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Herman Brusselmans
Antisemitism
Jewish groups to sue Belgian columnist for ‘stab a Jew’ article
“A red line has been crossed which we will not accept,” European Jewish Association chairman tells JNS.
Aug. 8, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
A screen displays a video of Osama bin Laden (left) after he was appointed “Man of the Year” by “Humo” magazine during its “Pop Poll” election in Brussels, March 12, 2002. A humoristic “translation” reads: “What a luck that your roof is closed ... Hahahahahaha.” Photo by Oliver Matthys/Belga/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
Belgian magazine article lamenting Gaza war talks of stabbing ‘every Jew’
“Herman Brusselmans doesn’t even try to disguise his antisemitism,” Ernest Herzog, the head of World Jewish Congress’s Combating Anti-Semitism, Intelligence and Security Division, told JNS.
Aug. 6, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Food-Tasting in Haifa
Feature
A frazzled Israel on tenterhooks braces for Iranian attack
Israel has been on pins and needles for a fifth straight day amid deep uncertainty and waiting, perhaps intentionally planned by its powerful existential foe.
Aug. 5, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Stanislaw (Shlomo) Aronson at his home in Tel Aviv, 2024. Photo by Jim Hollander/The Lonka Project.
Feature
The great escape
Holocaust survivor and Warsaw Uprising fighter Stanislaw (Shlomo) Aronson is back in Poland for the 80th anniversary commemoration of the revolt.
Aug. 1, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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