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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.

Al Jazeera's now-closed offices in the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in Samaria, May 5, 2024. Photo by Zain Jaafar/AFP via Getty Images.
Israel News
Israeli journalists’ union slams Al Jazeera closure
A board member quits and prominent personalities mock the association over its concern for the pro-Hamas Qatari network.
Sept. 25, 2024
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Moshe Aladi
Feature
In Israel’s targeted north, quiet heroism is everywhere
Searching for inspiring wartime stories, a JNS reporter discovers all he needs to do is look around.
Sept. 25, 2024
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A photomontage shows comedian L.E. Staiman in character as Lyle Culpepper getting kissed by Hamas leader Yahiya Sinwar. Image by L.E. Staiman
Feature
Jewish comic’s pro-jihadi gay persona scorches social media
A caricature of a clueless American academic, Lyle Culpepper amuses hundreds of thousands online with his enthusiasm for “Ji-hottie” terrorists.
Sept. 24, 2024
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Sheffi Paz, holding megaphone, demonstrates against anti-overhaul activists at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Oct. 3, 2023. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90
Israel News
Anti-immigration graffiti lands Tel Aviv woman, 72, in jail
Sheffi Paz received 45 days in prison for a graffiti that read: “German money kills Jews.”
Sept. 23, 2024
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The Passover prayer service held in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, April 11, 2023. Credit: Rosh Yehudi.
Israel News
Tel Aviv court OKs city ban on public sex-separated prayer
The court finds the ban nondiscriminatory while it also states that the municipality had applied it to Jews but not to Muslims.
Sept. 23, 2024
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A giant Israeli flag covers the hole left by a rocket that terrorists from Lebanon fired at Kiryat Bialik, Israel, on Sept. 22, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90
Feature
Haifa’s hardened locals shrug off Hezbollah’s escalation
Following a barrage of rockets to the suburbs of Israel’s third city, residents maintain their routines as they calmly brace for war.
Sept. 23, 2024
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Rep. Rashida Tlaib
Israel News
Cartoon showing Tlaib with exploding pager sparks controversy
Accused of fanning anti-Islam sentiment, the “National Review” drawing also drew attention to the alleged pro-terrorist actions of radical Democrats.
Sept. 22, 2024
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Representatives of the Chief Rabbinate of Israel deliver a kashrut certificate to a local restaurant, in central Jerusalem, on Dec. 31, 2019. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash90.
Israel News
Israeli Chief Rabbinate’s mandate voided, prompting renewal push
A dispute with the court on women’s representation and the independence of the clergy is paralyzing it ahead of belated chief rabbi elections.
Sept. 17, 2024
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Jordanians chant slogans during a demonstration near the Embassy of Israel in Amman in support of Palestinians amid ongoing battles between Israel and Hamas group in the Gaza Strip on March 28, 2024. Photo by Khalil Mazraawi/AFP via Getty Images.
Analysis
In fragile Jordan, anti-Israel mood is a boon for Islamists
Unprecedented successes for the local Muslim Brotherhood branch portend more hostility to Israel at best and a power vacuum at worst, experts say.
Sept. 17, 2024
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Noam Swissa (left) and Asif Korliker sit outside their hotel in Tel Aviv on Sept. 7, 2024. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Feature
In Tel Aviv, northern evacuees endure ‘disturbing’ rallies
Hailing from a conservative stronghold, the Play Hotel’s guests watch aghast as thousands pressure the government to end a war they deem vital.
Sept. 13, 2024
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Rosh Yehudi's lawyer, Harel Arnon (right), with petitioner Irit Linur at a hearing in Tel Aviv District Court on Sept. 4, 2024. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Antisemitism
Judge seeks rabbis’ input on separated prayer in Tel Aviv
The court needs to know whether the Chief Rabbinate requires a divider between the sexes when praying outside.
Sept. 12, 2024
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János Lastofka
Israel News
‘More friends than we think': Global allies converge on J’lem for confab
Foreign advocates of Jewish state vow to fight for it as part of a global conflict.
Sept. 11, 2024
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