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Etgar Lefkovits

Etgar Lefkovits is a correspondent in the Israel bureau of JNS (Jewish News Syndicate).

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Mike Evans, manager of the Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem, on May 16, 2017. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Gaza hostage deal ‘100%’ due to Trump, evangelical leader says

The Friends of Zion Museum in Jerusalem will host an event for the U.S. presidential inauguration.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 16, 2025

Majed el-Shafie, president and founder of the Toronto-based One Free World International organization, speaks with Israeli pupils at the Begin high school in Ramat Gan, Jan. 15, 2025. Credit: Courtesy.

Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity makes Oct. 7 documentary

“You have to fight the ideology and change people’s minds and hearts.”

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 16, 2025

A solar power plant in southern Israel, Nov. 16, 2017. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israel to share agritech know-how with HBCUs in America

The project will bring blue-and-white solar power innovations to Historically Black Colleges and Universities and African-American farmers.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 13, 2025

Ghanaian President John Mahama hosts Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel in Accra, Jan. 8, 2025. Credit: Courtesy.

Israeli deputy FM in Ghana as ties grow stronger

Agriculture, solar power targets for increased cooperation.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 9, 2025

Flag of Mexico. Credit: Tim Mossholder/Pexels.

From a Catholic Mexican actress on Spanish TV to a Jewish educator in Israel

Services, liturgy and Shabbat spoke to Hannah Abitbul, now an observant Jew living with her husband and young son.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 9, 2025

A Jewish family at home in Damascus, Syria, in 1901. Credit: R.Y. Young via Wikimedia Commons.

Rabbi of Syrian Jewish community in Israel writes to Ahmed al-Sharaa

Binyamin Hamra asks Syria's de facto leader to preserve the country's Jewish heritage sites.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 7, 2025

An El Al plane at Ben-Gurion Airport, Aug. 5, 2013. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

El Al gives away free miles to 80,000 IDF reservists

The offer came amid a national public outcry and an ongoing investigation into allegations of price gouging.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 6, 2025

OC Home Front Command Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo speaks with bereaved family members at the IDF's Urim Base near Gaza on Jan. 1, 2025. Photo by Rina Castelnuovo.

Bereaved families attend Chanukah lighting at IDF base attacked on Oct. 7

Eight soldiers serving at Urim died in the terrorist onslaught.

Etgar Lefkovits

Jan. 2, 2025

A panoramic view of the snow-covered Mount Hermon and the surrounding orchards and vineyards near Kibbutz El Rom in Israel's Golan Heights, on Jan. 20, 2022. Photo by David Silverman/Getty Images.

Mount Hermon blanketed in nearly two feet of snow

The winter storm also brought much-needed rain to the coastal areas and even a brief hailstorm to Tel Aviv.

Etgar Lefkovits

Dec. 31, 2024