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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.

Holocaust survivor Ruth Haran, 87, from Kibbutz Be'eri, pleads for her seven family members including two great grandchildren being held captive by Hamas in Gaza, Nov. 7, 2023. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.
Israel News
Holocaust survivor saved from Hamas buries son, fears for captive family
“This is a second Holocaust for me,” Ruth Haran, whose family was devasted by the Oct. 7 attacks, told JNS.
Nov. 7, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
US Ambassador to Israel Jack Lew presents his credentials to Israeli President Isaac Herzog in Jerusalem, Nov. 5, 2023. Photo by Amos Ben Gershon/GPO.
Israel News
New US ambassador to Israel: Oct. 7 a ‘stain on humanity’
The new envoy to Jerusalem met with the families of captives held by Hamas in Gaza.
Nov. 5, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
A Thai worker picks decorative flower leafs in the Kibbutz Sde Nitzan flower farm, near the border with the Gaza Strip, July 20, 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israel News
Despite war, most Thai workers remain in Israel
Twenty-nine Thais were killed in the Oct. 7 Hamas onslaught; 23 are captive in Gaza.
Nov. 3, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Moshe Ridler celebrates his 90th birthday with family members. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Survived the Holocaust, killed by Hamas
Moshe Ridler, “the grandfather of the kibbutz,” and his caretaker were murdered in their home on a kibbutz in southern Israel.
Nov. 1, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
European parliamentarians from the Israel Allies Caucus network meeting in Prague in June 2023. Photo courtesy of the Israel Allies Foundation.
World News
European lawmakers call for Iran sanctions over Hamas attack
Legislators in 19 European countries have called to “snap back” E.U. sanctions on Iran over its “state-sponsored terrorism and war crimes against Israel.”
Oct. 31, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan
Israel News
Yad Vashem: Ambassador’s yellow-star UN protest dishonors Holocaust victims
The donning of a yellow star by Israeli U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan “dishonors both the victims of the Holocaust and the State of Israel,” says Yad Vashem chairman.
Oct. 31, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly visits Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Sept. 11, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
Yad Vashem urges caution in Hamas-Nazi comparisons
“We must be careful until sufficient research is performed on the two ideologies,” the institution’s chairman, Dani Dayan, told JNS.
Oct. 30, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Filipino caregiver Camille Jesalva, 31, with Nitza Hefetz, 95, in Israel. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
Filipino caretaker, 31, saves 95-year-old from Hamas terrorist with bribe
Camille Jesalva got her wallet off the table and took out NIS 1,500 ($375) in cash—all the savings she had. “Please, sir, don’t take my passport or my ticket for my flight,” she urged.
Oct. 27, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau and 25 Chabad rabbis from North America and Australia after reading a prayer for hostages and soldiers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Oct. 23, 2023. Courtesy of Yisrael Bernath.
Israel News
Chabad rabbis visit to ‘strengthen the connection between Diaspora Jewry and Israel’
“We stand strong with Israel,” Rabbi David Eliezrie from California said. Delegation delivers $500,000 in emergency aid.
Oct. 25, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Damage to the “From Holocaust to Revival Museum” at Kibbutz Yad Mordechai in southern Israel, Oct. 24, 2023. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.
Israel News
Gaza rocket damages Holocaust museum in southern Israel
Kibbutz Yad Mordechai has been under continuing rocket fire since it held off terrorist infiltrators on Oct. 7.
Oct. 24, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Members of the Cohen family mourn at a cemetery near Petach Tikvah, on Oct. 22, 2023. Three generations of the family were murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.
Israel News
Three generations wiped out by Hamas in Kibbutz Be’eri
An estimated 10% of Kibbutz Be’eri’s 1,100 residents were killed and an equal number kidnapped during Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on southern Israel.
Oct. 23, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
United Hatzalah founder and president Eli Beer meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in Tel Aviv on Wednesday. Credit: United Hatzalah.
Israel News
United Hatzalah founder details horrors of Oct. 7 Hamas attack to Biden
“I have never in my life seen a president crying,” Eli Beer told JNS.
Oct. 19, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
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