More
EN
Newsletter
More
Newsletter
EN
Support JNS
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.

Jewish Agency Chairman Doron Almog at a meeting with the agency's Board of Governors, Nov. 6, 2022. Photo by Maxim Dinshtein.
Israel News
Jewish Agency says funded anti-Israel group at donors’ request
The unapologetic clarification followed several complaints by politicians about the $43,000 funding to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
April 29, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar participates in a Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Jerusalem, April 23, 2025. Photo by Rafi Ben Chakun.
Israel News
Israeli FM: Guterres ‘personally accountable’ for UNRWA crimes
Explaining the decision to sit out ICJ hearings, Gideon Sa’ar went on the offensive against U.N. antisemitism and its secretary-general.
April 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Druze, Nabi Shu'ayb
Israel News
500 Syrian Druze visit Israel
More than 500 residents of Syria were allowed by their country’s new rulers and Jerusalem to join a pilgrimage in the Galilee.
April 28, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Gideon Sa'ar
Israel News
Israeli FM: We won’t appear before ICJ in UNRWA hearings
The State of Israel “will not take the defendant’s stand” at the United Nations, said Gideon Sa’ar at JNS International Policy Summit.
April 27, 2025
Canaan Lidor
JNS International Policy Summit
Israel News
Israeli victory opens path to peace, expert tells JNS summit
Experts warned of persistent threats alongside major regional and energy opportunities for the Jewish state.
April 27, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Masa Yom Hazikaron Ceremony, Maj. Gen. (res.) Doron Almog
Israel News
Jewish Agency funded group that praised Netanyahu arrest order
The Zionist organization gave $43,000 to Physicians for Human Rights, which represents terrorists and blamed Israel for Oct. 7.
April 25, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Military and law enforcement professionals at the March of the Living at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp site in Poland on April 24, 2025. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash90.
Antisemitism
65 police officers march with survivors at Auschwitz
The delegation from the U.S. and Europe was the largest to date organized by Rutgers’ Miller Center on Policing and the University of Virginia.
April 25, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Pro-Palestinian Protesters at the University of Amsterdam
Antisemitism
Record number of antisemitic incidents recorded in Holland
The data reflects an “antisemitism crisis,” according to the Center for Information and Documentation on Israel.
April 24, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Pope Francis in Rome
Israel News
Israeli official: Not downplaying Pope Francis’s death
The source referenced a glowing eulogy by the president but did not explain Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s silence or decision to skip the pontiff’s funeral.
April 24, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Riga Ghetto
Antisemitism
Latvia closes probe of Nazi collaborator’s Holocaust record
Yad Vashem called the decision to whitewash the late Herberts Cukrus a denial of historical justice.
April 24, 2025
Canaan Lidor
An object suspected as a IED that was discovered in Netivot, Israel in April 2025. Photo Credit: Israel Police.
Israel News
Explosive device from Oct. 7 attack found near Netivot
The object, likely left by terrorists from Gaza, was discovered during a routine patrol, according to police.
April 23, 2025
Canaan Lidor
A screenshot of the open letter that 36 members of the Board of Deputies of British Jews published in The Financial Times on April 17, 2025.
Israel News
UK Jewish group disciplines members over Israel criticism
The Board of Deputies of British Jews suspended a vice chair and 35 delegates who penned a letter in the organization’s name blaming the Jewish state for the Gaza war.
April 23, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Load More