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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.

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a meeting of his Religious Zionism Party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Jan. 27, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
No more hostage deal talks with Hamas, Smotrich says
Israel’s finance minister announced “unequivocally” that “it’s over.” The prime minister’s office has yet to comment.
July 31, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Dyab Abou Jahjah
Feature
This is the Hezbollah-linked activist behind lawfare on Israelis
Dyab Abou Jahjah’s Brussels-based NGO exploits courts to spread antisemitic hate, his critics say.
July 30, 2025
David Isaac, Canaan Lidor
The abandoned Vilnius Palace of Concerts and Sports, also known as Sporto Rūmai, built by Soviets atop the Piramónt Jewish cemetery in Vilnius, Lithuania. Credit: The Government of the Republic of Lithuania.
Jewish Life
Lithuania reneges on vow not to build atop old Jewish cemetery in Vilnius
The surprise announcement on the construction of a conference center on the former Piramónt Cemetery triggered outrage by Jewish groups.
July 30, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Susanne Dahlgren, director of the Finnish Institute in the Middle East, speaks during an interview with the "YLe" broadcaster in Helsinki. Source: Screenshot/YLe.
Israel News
Finnish researcher says Israel seeking ‘final solution’ in Gaza
The head of the state-funded institution said Germany is supporting Israel because of the Holocaust.
July 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Betzalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir attend the Otzma Yehudit Party's campaign event in Bat Yam, on April 06, 2019. Photo by Gili Yaari/Flash90.
Antisemitism
The Netherlands bans entry for Ben-Gvir and Smotrich
Geert Wilders, the leader of the country’s largest party, condemned the move as an insult to the victims of Oct. 7.
July 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez (left) and Socialist MP Óscar Puente during a second parliamentary vote to elect Spain's next premier at the Congress of Deputies in Madrid, on Sept. 29, 2023. Photo by Javier Soriano/AFP via Getty Images.
Antisemitism
Spanish minister describes French teens on Vueling flight as ‘Israeli brats’
Yad Vashem: A public representative should not encourage hatred “while every year, thousands of Jewish families flee Europe under threat.
July 28, 2025
Yossi Lempkowicz, Canaan Lidor
Hundreds of thousands of revelers attend the Gay Pride Parade in Berlin on July 26, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of the Municipality of Berlin.
Antisemitism
Antisemitic slogans, assault documented outside Berlin Pride
Nearly 60 people were arrested at an anti-Israel rally where one man was assaulted and after demonstrators displayed terrorist symbols, shouted antisemitic slurs and attacked police.
July 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Huckabee Dayan Yad Vashem
Israel News
Yad Vashem rejects genocide allegation against Israel
Israel’s main Holocaust museum labeled the accusations “dangerous distortions” following controversies around a German affiliate and some scholars.
July 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Vienna
Antisemitism
Austrian pizzeria boots Hebrew speakers, campground bars entry to Israeli couple
“Welcome to Europe, 2025,” said Israeli musician Amit Peled, who along with two colleagues was refused service after a waiter heard them speaking Hebrew.
July 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Philip Simon is featured in a banner advertising one of his shows. Credit: Courtesy of Philip Simon.
Antisemitism
Israeli DJ canceled in Belgium, UK Jews deplatformed in Scotland
One venue in Edinburgh canceled Philip Simon’s show due to his “views” and another cited “staff security.”
July 27, 2025
Canaan Lidor
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Aug. 25, 2019. Photo by Yahav Gamliel/Flash90.
Israel News
Yad Vashem rejects embargo call by chair of German affiliate
Stephan-Andreas Casdorff of the Friends of Yad Vashem Germany cited Germany’s “historical responsibility” for the Shoah as reason to cut off Israel.
July 27, 2025
Canaan Lidor
A guide trains rabbis in krav maga in Eindhoven, the Netherlands on July 22, 2025. Photo credit: RCE.
Antisemitism
European rabbis undergo Krav Maga training in the Netherlands
“Every rabbi in Europe is exposed to the risk of assault whenever they walk down the street,” said the event’s organizer, Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
July 24, 2025
Canaan Lidor
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