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Canaan Lidor is an award-winning journalist and news correspondent at JNS. 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 his native Haifa, Israel, with his wife and two children.

In a JNS Q&A, E.U. Ambassador to Israel Michael Mann urges restraint, rejects sanctions and backs training 3,000 Palestinians for Gaza policing despite Israeli concerns.
Jewish community leaders decry the vote as dangerously uninformed, warning it reflects rising anti-Israel bias among future British elites.
“Any reliance by Europol on accusations made by a terror-linked NGO propaganda front undermines Europol’s credibility in terms of law enforcement,” said NGO Monitor President Gerald Steinberg.
Far-reaching global developments—many with direct implications for Israel—are unfolding largely beyond the country’s field of view.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz spoke by phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday.
An attempt to ban the mass at Verdun failed after a court overturned, it citing the separation of religion and state.
“European governments must put an end to the vile trade in death and symbols of humiliation,” Rabbi Menachem Margolin told JNS.
Intervention by French-Jewish lawmaker Meyer Habib helped resolve the issue.
Following demonstrations and threats of legal action.
Mohanad Alkhatib allegedly crossed into Israel with Hamas terrorists, before settling in Brussels and attending anti-Israel rallies across Europe.
Jonas Gahr Støre “fueled antisemitism” by attending anti-Israel activists’ Holocaust commemoration, said Israel’s Foreign Ministry.
Israeli and U.K. Jewish groups say the resignations highlight deeper problems with the network’s coverage of Trump, Israel and Gaza.