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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.

IAF aircraft join 155 firefighting teams as about 4,700 acres burn near Jerusalem; international help en route, arrests made in suspected arson.
Twio-thirds of respondents said they were not “optimistic” about a deal for retrieving the hostages from Gaza.
“The Jews say, ‘This is ours, that was ours....’ No. That’s not what the Quran says,” said the Palestinian leader, echoing a claim made by his predecessor, Yasser Arafat.
The unapologetic clarification followed several complaints by politicians about the $43,000 funding to Physicians for Human Rights-Israel.
Explaining the decision to sit out ICJ hearings, Gideon Sa’ar went on the offensive against U.N. antisemitism and its secretary-general.
More than 500 residents of Syria were allowed by their country’s new rulers and Jerusalem to join a pilgrimage in the Galilee.
The State of Israel “will not take the defendant’s stand” at the United Nations, said Gideon Sa’ar at JNS International Policy Summit.
Experts warned of persistent threats alongside major regional and energy opportunities for the Jewish state.