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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.

A narrow majority rejected a left-wing push to remove Israel’s flag, as a coalition split exposes tensions over Belgium’s policy toward Israel.
Participants in the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s MASHAV programs say missile attacks failed to overshadow lessons in entrepreneurship, technology and resilience.
The Council of State says proposal is legally sound, urges enforcement plan as critics say six-year prison penalty is disproportionate.
The Jewish applicant said a government agency suspended his scholarship over Reichman University’s Zionist identity before reversing the decision.
The ruling comes amid British judiciary’s checkered record on anti-Israel lawfare and hooliganism, the group that defended the soldier said.
The IHRA definition could have a “chilling effect on political speech,” said the British Medical Association, drawing condemnation from Jewish medical groups and Holocaust educators.
Banning brit milah would prevent Jewish life from flourishing in Europe, said Katharina von Schnurbein.
The former Hamas insider said U.S. intervention disrupted Israel’s momentum against Tehran.
At the JNS summit, speakers linked Europe’s anti-Israel turn to demographic shifts, anti-Trump sentiment, migration and rising antisemitism.
JNS summit panelists cited judicial activism, identity politics and social fragmentation among the challenges facing Israel’s system of government.
Jewish community figures condemned the move as singling out Jews, and one called support from the Centre Party a betrayal of Israel.
Hillel Neuer accused outgoing commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini of enabling Hamas and called for criminal charges.