Etgar Lefkovits-Dallal
Jerusalem Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post
Etgar Lefkovits-Dallal is a Jerusalem Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post. He has extensive knowledge of the region. Mr. Lefkovits is responsible for daily coverage of all major news in the city; including police, city hall and terror attacks. He has been involved in many diplomatic discussions regarding Jerusalem’s future. He was invited by Polish government to Warsaw to write a series on Israel-Polish relations. He has extensively covered the goings-on on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, including the discovery of a bulge in the wall, a story he broke in Israel. He was a research assistant to former Jerusalem Bureau Chief Serge Schmemenn, and Deborah Sontag, where he was responsible for assisting with research, in-person and phone interviews, monitoring breaking news stories, keeping the bureau chiefs informed of developments and trends in the country, and wrote occasional articles that appeared in the New York Times.
Mr. Lefkovitz was the Israel reporter for a major San Antonio, Texas radio station, for a magazine of the Israel Defense Forces, where he was responsible for covering foreign affairs interviewed visiting chiefs of staff and senior officers of foreign armies, as well as military attaches stationed in Israel. Mr. Lefkovitz has a B.A. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is fluent in English as his mother tongue, Hebrew, and French.
Fee (Explanation): $
Availability: Etgar lives in Israel and frequently comes to the US for speaking engagements.
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Topics:
- Jerusalem in the eyes of a local correspondent
- Covering terror attacks, as well as all major events in the city over the past three years
- The Temple Mount, including the recent Jordanian involvement in repairing a bulge on the southern wall of the Temple Mount (a story I broke in Israel)
- The security fence
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