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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.

As Tehran’s influence collapses in Syria and Lebanon, Ankara is stepping into the void, posing a new and complex threat to Israel’s north.
At a special Cabinet session, the prime minister described the city as the raison d’être of Zionism and the Jewish state.
The U.S. president “was right to highlight the moral aberration of the ‘Kill the Boer’ chant and the horrific farm murders,” Warren Goldstein said.
Friedrich Merz’s comments are the harshest by a German top official since the outbreak of war on Oct. 7, 2023.
Jerusalem flagged the northern nation as having “potential threat” for Israelis, whereas it used to be marked as “no warning.”
The British author downplayed the weight of foreign efforts to end the war prematurely, which he argued would cost more than seeing it through.
Liam O’Hanna of the anti-Israel trio Kneecap is to appear before a judge in London next month.
A top official had falsely claimed that 14,000 infants faced death within 48 hours.