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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 president of the National Congress of Honduras, Tomás Zambrano, and the Latin America director of the Israel Allies Foundation, Leopoldo Martinez, on March 23, 2026. Credit: Courtesy.
World News
Honduran congressional leader lauds war against Iran as a global game-changer
José Tomás Zambrano says U.S.–Israel campaign could weaken Tehran’s terror reach in Central and South America.
Mar. 24, 2026
Etgar Lefkovits
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
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
Israeli President Isaac Herzog (left) and the Yad Vashem Chairman Dani Dayan at the ceremony at the Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, April 17, 2024. Credit: Courtesy of Yad Vashem.
Antisemitism
Herzog gives Talmud volume that survived the Holocaust to Yad Vashem
The Israeli leader’s grandfather was entrusted with the Pesachim Tractate after it was found in the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich in 1945.
Apr. 18, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Avida Bachar
Israel News
Be’eri farmer who lost his wife, son and leg on Oct. 7 returns to his fields
“We underwent a tragedy. But you can’t change the past; only the future,” says Avida Bachar.
Apr. 17, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Palestinians bury relatives killed in an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, Feb. 26, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Israel News
Hamas admits one-third of its data on Gazan deaths is ‘incomplete’
The acknowledgment raises anew questions about the veracity of the terrorist group’s claims about the war.
Apr. 15, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)
Israel News
Christian Allies Caucus presses Germany to keep funding freeze on UNRWA
It offered government officials alternatives to funnel humanitarian support to Palestinian civilians.
Apr. 11, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Israel-Premier Tech's Hugo Houle winning stage 16 of the 2022 Tour de France, July 19, 2022. Credit: Sprint Cycling.
Antisemitism
BDS threats to cancel Israeli cycling team an ‘obtuse moral inversion’
“These haters have it backward: On Oct. 7, it was Hamas that began a genocidal campaign of murder,” says Israel-Premier Tech co-owner Sylvan Adams.
Apr. 10, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
The oldest Jewish "siddur" ever found is part of the Green Collection, which will be donated to the future international Bible museum in Washington, D.C. Credit: The Green Collection.
Culture and Society
Israeli university uses AI to decipher ancient Hebrew, Aramaic texts
Engineering students at Ben-Gurion University are employing Mask Language Modeling to get to the bottom of damaged, centuries-old inscriptions.
Apr. 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
These immigrants to Israel from around the world appear in a video accompanying the April 2024 launch of the Belong aliyah concierge service company. Credit: Courtesy.
Israel News
New private company offers concierge service to ‘olim’
Belong seeks to supplement the efforts of the Jewish Agency and Nefesh B’Nefesh.
Apr. 9, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
Evacuees in Eilat
Israel News
27,000 Israeli evacuees from border areas remain in hotels
The number represents a steep drop from the 90,000 Israelis who were sheltered in hotels after Oct. 7 massacre, even as the war against Hamas in Gaza rages on and amid a volatile situation on Israel’s northern border.
Apr. 7, 2024
Etgar Lefkovits
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