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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.

The weekend statement from the Foreign Ministry comes six months after Jerusalem and the South American nation restored full diplomatic relations.
The Central American nation is the 46th country to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist group in the past year.
“We have seen it all before,” envoy Daniel Meron says at U.N. ceremony in Geneva where Argentina was handed the chairmanship of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The large European airline group includes SWISS, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings.
“No Jewish community in this country has been left unscathed over the past several years,” said B’nai Brith Canada’s CEO.
“This survey shows how antisemitism impacting Jewish Australian women isn’t marginal; it’s widespread,” a Jewish leader tells JNS.
Remarks by the US envoy highlight a growing realization that disarming Hamas will likely be left to Israel as the terror group reasserts control in half of Gaza.
The Gulf country was the target of most of Tehran’s missiles and drones.
The move would reverse a decision by the Central American nation two decades ago to move its Israeli embassy to Tel Aviv.
The planned new flights to Saigon come as Israelis are increasingly flying to the Far East amid a burst of antisemitism in much of the West.
A passionate supporter of Israel, Joni Lamb received the Israel Allies Award in 2024.
The Hungarian low-cost carrier was in negotiations to open a Ben-Gurion base this year.