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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.

“We need to show America, Israel and the entire world that the U.S. stands firmly with Israel,” says Rep. David Kustoff of Tennessee.
Politics, nepotism and the role of women have left the country’s top rabbinical offices vacant for the first time in its history.
Majority of countries have made no progress on Holocaust art restitution over the last quarter century.
The parliamentarians at the two-day conference represented the Czech Republic, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Slovakia, Portugal and Estonia.
The $3 million donation to United Hatzalah includes 76 motorcycles or ambucycles and other emergency vehicles for use during the ongoing war.
The comedian has emerged as a leading voice for Israel in Hollywood at a time when many of his Jewish colleagues in the film industry have remained silent or politically neutral.
Edmund “Mundek” Łukawiecki fought the Germans and Ukrainians in Poland during WWII, and documented the lives of the partisans in the forest.
The award seeks to “honor the visionary educators who are transforming the landscape of teaching in Israel.”