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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.

Iranian involvement is under serious review after Rotterdam blast tied to broader wave of antisemitic attacks.
A Haifa-area high school deployed the “Buddy” interactive device to assist teachers and connect sick students remotely.
A lawmaker filed a criminal complaint against ex-official Jessé Souza, who said Jeffrey Epstein was an operative for “Jewish Zionism.”
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar pushed back against Brussels’ rebuke of the resident American ambassador, who’d warned about brith milah prosecutions.
The Reina Sofía told JNS that it “requested its security department to immediately open an independent and transparent internal investigation to clarify what happened.”
Critics said the incident involving Matt Lucas was indicative of the use of anti-Israel activism as camouflage for antisemitism.
Ambassador Bill White accuses Antwerp authorities of “antisemitic harassment” of Jewish circumcisers.
French Interior Ministry data showed incidents targeting Jews formed the majority of roughly 2,500 acts against religious groups recorded last year.
A pro-Israel group condemned the interrogations at the Sidenor factory as anti-democratic intimidation.