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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.

Muslims on Hajj circle the Kabaa at the Great Mosque of Mecca. Credit: Pixabay.
Culture and Society
Israel awaiting Saudi approval for direct flights to hajj
Around 6,000 Israelis make the pilgrimage each year.
May 8, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Cathelean Steele, national project coordinator at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, leads a workshop about sex trafficking in the United States, July 21, 2017. Source: Twitter.
Jewish Life
Building a bridge between Israel and black America
The African-American women’s leadership summit comes amid the largely supportive evangelical Christian community around the globe, based on shared Judeo-Christian values.
May 4, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
MK Yuli Edelstein addresses Christian supporters of Israel at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 2, 2023. Courtesy.
Culture and Society
Israel’s relations with Christian world a ‘strategic imperative’
The Fijian president is expected to open his country’s embassy in Jerusalem in the fall.
May 3, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
A father and his adopted sons. Photo by Brendon Connelly via Wikimedia Commons.
Israel News
High Court ends Orthodox monopoly on conversion for adoption
Every case will be examined individually, the judges rule.
April 30, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Sylvan Adams lights a torch during the rehearsal for the Independence Day ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Feature
Canadian Israeli lighting Independence Day torch bemoans growing assimilation in Diaspora
“We need more Birthrights,” insists philanthropist Sylvan Adams.
April 25, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Some 7,000 people attend an English-language Memorial Day ceremony at the IDF Armored Corps Memorial Site and Museum in Latrun, west of Jerusalem, April 24, 2023. Credit: Masa Israel Journey.
Israel News
Unity encouraged at Memorial Day ceremony held at Armored Corps Museum
Twelve U.S. Congress members attended the English-language event.
April 25, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Caroline Glick in Jerusalem, March 11, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israel News
Caroline Glick under consideration for New York consul post
The JNS columnist worked for Benjamin Netanyahu a quarter century ago.
April 24, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) discusses Iranian nuclear activities on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Feb. 1, 2022. Source: Screenshot.
Israel News
US, Greek, Cypriot, Israeli lawmakers meet to advance ties
The 3+1 interparliamentary group reaffirmed its commitment to security and prosperity in the Eastern Mediterranean.
April 23, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Israel Foreign Minister Eli Cohen meets with Turkmen Deputy Foreign Minister Berrdiniaz Matiev in Ashgabat, April 19, 2023. Photo by Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.
Israel News
Israeli foreign minister to inaugurate permanent embassy in Turkmenistan
The legation will be located less than 12 miles from the border with Iran.
April 20, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Esther Yaron speaks at the old train station in Thessaloniki, Greece, at an event marking 80 years since the deportation of the city’s Jews, March 19, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.
Feature
From Macedonia to Pardes Hanna
A child survivor of the Holocaust recounts her saga as a baby in German-occupied Greece.
April 18, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Kaunas Pogrom in Lithuania
Antisemitism
‘Holocaust distortion is rising worldwide’
Yad Vashem chairman Dani Dayan sits down with JNS for an interview ahead of Israel’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.
April 17, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Rail leading to Auschwitz
Israel News
Yad Vashem calls for historical accuracy in youth trips to Poland
The Holocaust education center also decries “problematic sites” Warsaw recommends for visits.
April 11, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
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