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Canaan Lidor is an experienced journalist and international correspondent for JNS, covering Europe, Australia and global Jewish affairs. A former fighter and counterintelligence analyst in the IDF, he has over a decade of field experience covering world events, including several conflicts and terrorist attacks, as a Europe correspondent based in the Netherlands. Canaan now lives in Yad Hana, Israel, with his wife and two children.

Joel Lion presented his credentials in Ankara as a temporary chargé d’affaires amid a low point in bilateral ties.
PM Janez Janša attended the Ljubljana ceremony after reversing his predecessor’s sanctions and blocking an E.U. condemnation of the Jewish state.
Demonstration organizers argue that the bill’s reliance on the IHRA definition of antisemitism would limit free speech.
Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun urged Lithuania to block the construction of a conference or cultural center on an ancient burial ground razed under Soviet rule.
ACOM said Prime Minister Sánchez does not represent the Iberian nation and that a new government could rapidly improve ties with the Jewish state.
Olivér Várhelyi said Europe cannot claim Jewish life belongs while making religious practice “increasingly difficult, if not impossible.”
Leuven cites security concerns in scrapping HaPo’el Beersheba game, drawing protests from Israel’s embassy and Belgian Jews.
Europe “cannot allow products from illegal settlements in the West Bank to illegally enter the territory of the European Union,” said Jean-Noel Barrot.
The data was published amid allegations by Israel that Madrid’s anti-Israeli rhetoric and policies were fomenting Jew hatred.
Threatened disruptions would affect Brussels Airlines flights to and from Israel.
The assertion by the chancellor, a supporter of the Jewish State, contrasts with Jerusalem’s rejection of such narratives.
The new program teaches mohels medical and sanitary techniques, amid a crackdown in Belgium on the Jewish ritual.