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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.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
Antisemitism
South African Jews slam president’s silence on Hamas crimes
In a speech, Cyril Ramaphosa mentioned the “severe humanitarian crisis faced by Palestinians” and ignored Hamas’s cruelty to Israeli hostages.
Feb. 27, 2025
Canaan Lidor
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks to reporters at the ministry in Jerusalem, Jan. 13, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Israel ends boycott of Le Pen’s party in France, and others in Sweden, Spain
A former leader of French Jews called the move “inevitable.”
Feb. 27, 2025
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New Hope Party head Gideon Sa'ar speaks during the conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israel News
Israeli FM dismisses hope for real change in ‘jihadist’ Syria
“The Islamists speak softly. Just check how Iran spoke in 1979,” said Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar in Brussels.
Feb. 25, 2025
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National Rally President Jordan Bardella (left) and Israeli Minister of Diaspora Affairs Amichai Chikli in Washington on Feb. 21, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Jordan Bardella.
Israel News
Israeli minister Chikli meets French right-wing leader
Both men condemned Steven Bannon’s perceived Nazi salute at CPAC.
Feb. 25, 2025
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Israeli Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich speaks at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the Besheva group on Feb. 24, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Israel News
Smotrich: Israel to seize land if Gaza hostages aren’t returned
If the captives, both living and dead, are not returned, Israel will expand the agricultural areas of the kibbutzim Be’eri and Nir Oz into the Gaza perimeter, said the Israeli finance minister.
Feb. 25, 2025
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Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar speaks to reporters at the ministry in Jerusalem, Nov. 10, 2024. Credit: MFA.
Israel News
Israel could extend Gaza truce if more hostages freed, Sa’ar says in Brussels
Israeli FM Gideon Sa’ar met with top officials from the bloc, despite protests by Amnesty and other hostile entities.
Feb. 24, 2025
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Guests visit the main floor of the IDEX defense show in Abu Dhabi, the United Arab Emirates, in February 2023. Photo courtesy of IDEX.
Israel News
Israeli defense manufacturers wow buyers at Abu Dhabi show
Having been shunned from two shows in France, Israel Aerospace Industries and other arms makers received a ‘warm welcome’ in Abu Dhabi.
Feb. 24, 2025
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U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. News
US Supreme Court rejects Shoah restitution claim against Hungary
The Holocaust survivors who sued Budapest failed to demonstrate an American connection to their property, the justices said.
Feb. 23, 2025
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Australian Antisemitism
Antisemitism
Aussie Muslim groups defend nurses who said they murder Israelis
Some of Australia’s foremost Muslim advocacy organizations have accused the nurses’ critics of “hypocrisy.”
Feb. 21, 2025
Canaan Lidor
An ornate Holy Ark and its Torah scroll taken from Iraq by fleeing Jews is on display at the Babylonian Jewish Heritage Center in Or Yehuda, Israel, and pictured here in November 2021. Credit: Israel Parker via Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
Fleeing Iraqi Jews left $34 billion behind, report says
The document is unusual for its use of forensic accounting to quantify the losses incurred by some 135,000 people who escaped persecution.
Feb. 21, 2025
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UNRWA
Israel News
Israeli authorities raid multiple UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem
The move came two weeks after laws banned the aid agency for Palestinians from Israel, ending its decades-long presence in some facilities.
Feb. 19, 2025
Akiva Van Koningsveld, Canaan Lidor
A bulldozer demolishes a house that was damaged during the Oct. 7 massacre in Kibbutz Be'eri, as part of a project to rebuild the destroyed homes and infrastructure in the kibbutz, July 7, 2024. Photo by Oren Cohen/Flash90.
Israel News
500 days after Oct. 7, over a dozen southern towns still evacuated
In four out of 13 evacuated towns, repopulation isn’t scheduled to happen before 2026, the government said.
Feb. 17, 2025
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