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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.

The prime minister warns proposed state would become Iranian terror base near Israeli cities; Macron urges P.A. reform as path to two-state solution.
Richard Gamboa Ben-Eleazar, appointed head of the religions department at the Columbian Interior Ministry, has inveighed on X against “Israeli Nazism” and called for “standing in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
The move followed an accusation by the kingdom’s foreign minister, who said the Jews state “appears” to have committed war crimes in Gaza.
The injunction, which kept the spy chief in place as he prepares an affidavit, sparked allegations of judicial overreach amid a constitutional crisis.
Emotional outbursts disrupt a hearing on whether the government has the mandate to fire the head of the Shin Bet security service.
“Israelis are not human beings ... they are not even beasts,” Ahmed Alagha wrote online, in addition to his antisemitic remarks.
The rare admission followed an analysis that showed some 3,400 reported casualties from previous tallies had been dropped from the latest one.
The Israeli PM came down hard in favor of a police officer who’s probed for corruption after objecting to the secret service’s handling of Jews.