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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.

Rabbi Gilad Kariv, head of the Reform movement in Israel and currently a Labor Party lawmaker, officiates at a wedding outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, in protest of the Orthodox Rabbinate's monopoly on marriage licensing and the nonrecognition of civil marriages in Israel, March 18, 2013. Credit: Flash90.
Israel News
Court approval of ‘Utah Zoom’ weddings adds to debate over judicial reform
The Israeli Supreme Court ruling comes after a lengthy legal battle over civil marriage.
March 9, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Israel News
Educational youth trips to Poland to resume after three-year hiatus, says Israeli PMO
The Polish Foreign Ministry has denied a final agreement was reached, but said “a convergence of opinions” may lead to one being signed “in the near future.”
March 9, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Azerbaijan ambassador-designate Mukhtar Mammadov meets in Jerusalem with Malcolm Hoenlein, vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, March 2023. Credit: Eli Bardenstein.
Feature
Azerbaijan’s new ambassador to Israel meets with senior US Jewish leader in Jerusalem
The meeting comes as Mukhtar Mammadov prepares to become the first envoy to Israel from a Shi’ite Muslim country.
March 8, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Israelis attend a Passover seder in Mishmar David, April 15, 2022. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Israel News
Knesset advances bill that lets hospitals ban leavened goods on Passover
The measure comes after the High Court nixed the longstanding holiday status quo in 2020.
March 6, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
U.S. News
Israel to inaugurate permanent embassy in Turkmenistan
The embassy will be the closest official Israeli mission to Iran.
March 5, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
An inscription first said to be of King Darius, but which the Israel Antiquities Authority clarified to be inauthentic on March 3, 2023. Photo: Shai Halevi, Israel Antiquities Authority.
Culture and Society
Touted Darius inscription is inauthentic, Israel Antiquities Authority clarifies
The government body confirmed that an expert, who created the inscription as an educational tool, accidentally left it at the dig site.
March 3, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis visits the Garden of the Righteous at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, March 2, 2023. Courtesy of the Lithuanian Embassy.
Antisemitism
Lithuanian FM pays respect to great-grandmother honored by Yad Vashem
Ona Jablonskytė-Landsbergienė saved a 7-year-old Jewish girl during the Holocaust.
March 2, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Azerbaijani Ambassador to Israel Mukhtar Mammadov. Credit: Haqqin.az.
Israel News
Azerbaijan ambassador arrives in Israel
Baku supplies Israel with an estimated 40% of its oil.
March 1, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Then-Cypriot Foreign Minister Nikos Christodoulidis meets with then-Israeli President Reuven Rivlin in Jerusalem, March 22, 2018. Photo by Mark Neyman/GPO.
Israel News
Greece, Cyprus, Israel plan trilateral leaders’ summit
Netanyahu and Cypriot President-elect Nikos Christodoulides speak by phone and discuss cooperation on trade, defense, energy and tourism.
Feb. 27, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Rabbi Moshe Haliwa's cut tefillin boxes. Courtesy.
Israel News
‘I was Jewish, and that was it’
Jordanian airport security cut rabbi’s tefillin, claiming safety hazard.
Feb. 23, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Ran Bar-Yoshafat
Feature
NGOs front and center in the battle over reforming Israel’s legal system
Left and right have diametrically opposed views on the power of the Supreme Court.
Feb. 22, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli speaks with South African and African-American religious leaders at an event at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. Source: Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Israel News
First Arab-Africa-Israel security conference to be held in Jerusalem
“The summit is particularly important when Iran and its Hezbollah terror proxy are subverting states across the region,” said Dan Diker, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.
Feb. 20, 2023
Etgar Lefkovits
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