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Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Etgar Lefkovits, an award-winning international journalist, is an Israel correspondent and a feature news writer for 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 currently based in Tel Aviv.

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News & Views / News Briefs

Huckabee: ‘Clear’ to Trump that Iranians Are Not Serious About Peace

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee said on Thursday that it is now clear to President Donald Trump that Iran is not serious about making peace. The remarks by the American envoy came a day after Trump said the ceasefire with Iran was effectively over following repeated attacks by the Islamic regime in the Gulf. […]

News Briefs / Islamists / On Campus / Education / Israeli Arabs

Bar-Ilan University Bars Student Wearing Niqab from Campus

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

"It was made clear to you that this is not acceptable" on school grounds, the university's rector wrote the young woman.

Israel / Travel / News Briefs

Rescue Flights to Israel to Start by June 19

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

A limited number of seats will be available for the estimated 150,000 Israelis stranded abroad.

Israel / Iran / Travel

‘Weeks’ Until All Israelis Stranded Abroad are Brought Home

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The National Security Council warned Israelis not to try to reach Israel by land through Jordan or Egypt.

Antisemitism / Jordan

Jordanian Textbooks Justify Hamas Oct. 7 Massacre

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

A study by IMPACT-se found that textbooks "promote antisemitism, glorify violent jihad, and express strong hostility toward homosexuality

Antisemitism / News Briefs / Turkey

Turkish Jew Arrested for Visiting Israel

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Umut Ataseven, wo is a freelance blogger for a Turkish paper, was in Israel as a tourist on April 6-12.

IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / News Briefs / Health and Medicine / Chessed and Tzedaka

Life-Saving Medical Device Donated by American-Israeli Treats Soldiers Wounded in Gaza

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Belmont Medical Technologies founder Regina Herzlinger donated 50 rapid blood infuser devices to Israeli hospitals and trauma centers.

Eye on "Palestine" / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

David Friedman: 'Palestinians' Should Have Autonomy Sans Voting Rights, Like Puerto Ricans in US

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

“Nobody accuses the United States of being an apartheid state,” the former U.S. ambassador to Israel told the Knesset.

Antisemitism / Israeli Arabs / Cyprus / Greece

Greece Condemns Attack on Israeli Arab Tourist Mistaken for a Jew

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The 24-year-old Christian Arab from Nazareth was left hospitalized by the assault.

Sports / Israeli Arabs

Arab Swimmer to Represent Israel at Olympic Games

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Adam Maraana of Haifa will be the third Israeli Arab to represent Israel at the games.

Featured / Interviews and Profiles

An Indiana Farmer’s Journey to Caring for Red Heifers Brought to Israel from Texas

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

“It seems like the whole world is talking about the red heifers [Para Aduma] except in Israel,” said Moriyah Shapira, a spokeswoman for Ancient Shiloh.

Terrorism / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs / The Knesset / United Nations (UN)

Israel Can Refuse UNRWA Access to Gaza, Says Ex-Agency Legal Adviser

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

“Some donor nations, probably led by the U.S., could defund and in whole or in part end UNRWA,” says James Lindsay.

Featured / Aliyah / Geulah

Surge in Aliyah Applications Since War Began

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Some 6,500 new immigrants came to Israel since the Hamas massacre.

Israel / Israel At War: Iron Swords / US

Pompeo in Israel: Most Americans Are With You in War

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Israel has a duty to do its best to ensure that nothing like the Oct. 7 massacres ever happens again, the visiting former secretary of state said.

Featured / Terrorism / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / Antisemitism / The Knesset / United Nations (UN)

Israeli Lawmakers Ponder UNRWA Overhaul

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Israel has long said that UNRWA was created to perpetuate the conflict, not help Arab refugees.

Special Features / IDF & Security / Iran / News Briefs

Israeli Intelligence Minister: Iran Behind the Hamas War

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

“The fingerprints of Iran can be found on every conflict now underway in the Middle East, from Gaza to Lebanon to the Red Sea,” Minister Gila Gamliel said.

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / The Courts / Africa

‘Calculated Risk’: Israel to Fight South Africa's Genocide ‘Blood Libel’ at The Hague

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

“In giving political and legal cover to the October 7 massacre and the Hamas human-shield strategy, South Africa has made itself criminally complicit with Hamas’s campaign of genocide against our people,” Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy said.

Israel / Israel At War: Iron Swords / US / Gaza / Hamas / Interfaith Relations

American Muslim Women Leaders Make Solidarity Visit to Israel

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The extraordinary delegation of Muslim women leaders traveled, in extraordinary times, through war-torn southern Israel this weekend, braving renewed Hamas rocket attacks as the cease-fire collapsed and taking cover outside as the projectiles struck nearby.

Israel At War: Iron Swords / Gaza / Hamas / News Briefs

Quick-Thinking Caretaker Saves Elderly Israeli From Hamas

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The Filipino caretaker looked at the Hamas terrorist straight in the face and did not flinch.

Global / Jerusalem

Fiji to Open Embassy in Jerusalem in Early 2024

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The announcement comes as hundreds of pilgrims from Fiji are in Israel to take part in the annual Feast of Tabernacles celebrations organized by the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem.

Interfaith Relations

Pompeo Tops List of Israel’s Christian Allies

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The Washington-based advocacy group Israel Allies Foundation releases the list annually.

Israel / Politics / Diaspora / Holocaust

Yad Vashem Cutting Ties with US Fundraising Partner

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The American Society for Yad Vashem has accused the Holocaust memorial's chairman Dani Dayan of attempting to "raid" an endowment built for the museum's perpetual support.

Headline / Israel / India / Cyprus / Greece

India Seeks to Join Israel-Cyprus-Greece Alliance

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The announcement came during a trilateral summit held in Nicosia.

Israel / Business and Economy / Cyprus / Greece

Israel to Ink Major Energy Deal With Cyprus and Greece

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Israel is poised to finalize an energy deal with Greece and Cyprus which will include a mammoth electricity project connecting the power grids of the three countries, and a potential future regional natural gas pipeline between the eastern Mediterranean allies.

News Briefs / Jerusalem / Africa

Sierra Leone to Open Embassy in Jerusalem

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The legation is set to be the seventh in the Israeli capital.

Israel / News Briefs

Tel Aviv Light Rail Opens to the Public This Morning

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The Red Line's 34 stations run from Bat Yam through Jaffa, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan and Petach Tikva.

Jerusalem / South America

Uruguay to Open Diplomatic Office in Jerusalem

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The new office will work to promote cooperation in the field of innovation, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry.

Jerusalem / South America

Paraguay to Return Embassy to Jerusalem

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Paraguayan President Santiago Peña is to attend the official reopening ceremony in Jerusalem, scheduled to take place by the end of the year.

Jerusalem / South America

Paraguay Poised to Return Embassy to Jerusalem

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

An official announcement is expected after the president-elect is sworn in next week.

Travel / Antisemitism / Jordan

Israel Rebukes Kingdom of Jordan Over Harassment of Religious Jews

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Jordanian officials have desecrated Tefillin, demanded Jews cut off their payot, and simply barred entry to religious Jews.

Op-Eds

Ariel University: Internal Turmoil Amid External Assault

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Dismissing Bobby Brown, the University's senior vice president, has donors and friends of the embattled institution up in arms.

Palestinian Authority / The Knesset / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords

Leo Dee Urges End to PA Funding, PA Arab Opportunities to Work in Israel

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The rabbi, who lost his wife and two teenage daughters in an Arab terror attack, has urged unity in the wake of the tragedy.

"Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / North African States

Knesset Speaker Backs Moroccan Sovereignty Over Western Sahara

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Amir Ohana presented the head of the parliament in Rabat with the smallest Koran in the world, printed with Israeli nanotechnology.

News Briefs / Europe

Conservative Swedish Party with Extremist Past Seeks a Wary Israel’s Friendship

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Two members of the Swedish Democrats Party were in Israel last week seeking to cement their friendship with the Jewish state.

Judea & Samaria / Archaeology

Scholars Expound on Mount Ebal Curse Tablet with Oldest Hebrew Text

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The peer review of the small 3,200-year-old curse tablet discovered at Mount Ebal in Samaria more than two years ago is expected to reignite the debate in the archaeological community over the find.

Jewish / History / News Briefs

Oldest Near-Complete Hebrew Bible to be Displayed at Tel Aviv Museum

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Thousand-year-old Codex Sassoon manuscript is expected to fetch up to $50 million at Sotheby’s.

Israel / Azerbaijan

Azerbaijan Ambassador Arrives in Israel

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Baku supplies Israel with an estimated 40% of its oil.

Jerusalem / Archaeology

Jerusalem Hospitality Tent to Debut in Historic Kidron Valley

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The valley houses the earliest tombs in the most ancient Jewish cemetery in the world, including Zechariah’s Tomb, the Tomb of the Sons of Hezir and Absalom’s Tomb.

Archaeology

New Technology Connects Ancient Stele with King David

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

Researchers claim cutting-edge digital imaging has ended a decades-old debate within the archaeological community.

Israel / Business and Economy / Cyprus / Greece

Construction to Start on ‘Electricity Highway’ Connecting Israel, Cyprus and Greece

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

The EuroAsia Interconnector submarine power cable will link the countries' grids and provide Israel with a reliable way to export natural gas in the form of electric power.

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