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Canaan Lidor

Canaan Lidor

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.

The aftermath of an antisemitic attack in Sydney, Australia, on Jan. 5, 2025. Photo courtesy of Alex Ryvchin/Executive Council of Australian Jewry.
Feature
Australia-Israel rift splits Jewish community
Antisemitism surge fuels divisions as leaders debate Canberra’s stance on Palestine and Netanyahu’s harsh rebuke.
Sept. 1, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Samidoun
Israel News
Anti-Israel flotilla to feature terror group ‘coordinator’
Jaldia Abubakra heads the Samidoun network in Spain, the group said in a document announcing her participation.
Sept. 1, 2025
Canaan Lidor
A Jewish man outside the synagogue of Neuilly-sur-Seine, west of Paris, on Dec. 11, 2017. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Antisemitism
Man arrested for brandishing knife at Jews near Paris
Neuilly-sur-Seine has attracted Jewish families from across the region for its relative safety.
Aug. 31, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Erdoğan, Abbas
Antisemitism
In ominous undertones, Turkish FM declares Israel trade ban, airspace closure
“We have completely cut off our trade with Israel,” Hakan Fidan reportedly said in a speech in parliament.
Aug. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Yechiel Leiter is interviewed at the JNS studio in Jerusalem, October 2024. Credit: JNS/YouTube.
Israel News
My son died because IDF spares civilians, Israeli envoy to US says
Ambassador Yechiel Leiter cited his son’s death while fighting in Gaza as an example of the sacrifices the Jewish state makes to save Palestinian lives.
Aug. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Girls singing praises to Yahya Sinwar and other Palestinian terrorists in Brussels, Belgium, August 2025. Source: Sam van Rooy/X.
Israel News
Children filmed praising Palestinian terrorist leaders at rally in Brussels
Two girls sang “glory to Yahya Sinwar” and three other slain terrorists while sitting on the shoulders of men wearing keffiyehs in the Belgian capital.
Aug. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
National Holocaust Monument Ottawa
Antisemitism
Jewish woman stabbed at Ottawa supermarket
The suspect railed against Jews on social media.
Aug. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Participants at DSEI UK in London in 2019. Credit: DSEI UK.
Israel News
Israel pulls out of major UK defense exhibition
The decision to leave DSEI follows restrictions that amount to “discrimination,” the defense ministry in Jerusalem said.
Aug. 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Great Synagogue of Lyon, France
Israel News
Jewish boy assaulted outside synagogue in Lyon, per news reports
The incident coincides with an explosion of antisemitic crimes that Jewish leaders say is fueled by hateful rhetoric against Israel.
Aug. 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
University of Palermo
Antisemitism
Unfriend all Jews on Facebook, Italian law professor says
The University of Palermo distanced itself from the remarks by Luca Nivarra but announced no disciplinary action against him.
Aug. 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Paris, France
Antisemitism
France indicts two teens for planning jihadist attacks
The ISIS supporters targeted a shul and the Eiffel Tower, prosecutors said.
Aug. 28, 2025
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Ditsa Or speaks in Tel Aviv, Israel on July 31, 2025. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Israel News
Concessions to Hamas may feed captivity, hostage’s mom warns
Uncertainty and risk around any course of action means Israelis need to stand firm and have faith, said Ditza Or, whose son, Avinatan, remains in captivity in Gaza.
Aug. 27, 2025
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