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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.

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World News
Dutch authorities probing possible Iranian links to synagogue attack
Iranian involvement is under serious review after Rotterdam blast tied to broader wave of antisemitic attacks.
Mar. 18, 2026
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World News
Belgium deploys army to protect Jewish sites
Mar. 17, 2026
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A view of the Zuidas area in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Photo credit: Massimo Catarinella via Wikimedia Commons.
World News
Dutch bank blast linked to attacks on Jewish sites
Mar. 16, 2026
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Thousands joined rallies in Paris and across France to oppose a rising wave of antisemitism in the country, Feb. 19, 2019. Source: Screenshot.
World News
Israel condemns vandalism at Paris Jewish elementary school
The destruction of property at Beth Hannah elementary drew firm condemnations amid memories of the 2012 Toulouse massacre.
Feb. 2, 2026
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Brnjamin Netanyahu, 8th from left, and Miri Regev meet with community leaders in Kiryat Shmona, Israel on Feb. 1, 2026,. Photo credit: GPO.
Israel News
Netanyahu reveals vision of ‘great things’ for Israel’s north
“We are going to invest billions here in the development of the north. All the communities represented here by the heads of the communities, we are going to make a huge revolution here,” said the Israeli premier.
Feb. 2, 2026
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Police observe a demonstration in Birmingham, the U.K., on July 20, 2012. Credit: Palnatoke via Wikimedia Commons.
Antisemitism
UK Jewish groups alarmed at jihadi’s run for office
Shahid Butt spent five years in a Yemeni prison for plotting to bomb the British consulate there.
Feb. 1, 2026
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BBC
Antisemitism
BBC sorry for omitting Holocaust victims’ Jewish identity
On several occasions covering International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presenters said 6 million “people” had been killed by the Nazis.
Jan. 29, 2026
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Dutch Party for Freedom head Geert Wilders (right) visits Samaria with Samaria Regional Council Chairman Yossi Dagan, Dec. 9, 2024. Credit: Samaria Regional Council.
Features
Mutiny splits Geert Wilders’ Dutch Party
Gidi Markuszower cited perceived leadership failures on the part of pro-Israel Party for Freedom head Geert Wilders as the reason for the move.
Jan. 29, 2026
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Hungarian Jews shortly before their murder at Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi-occupied Poland in May 1944. Photo credit: Yad Vashem.
Features
New Holocaust study reframes traumatic Kasztner affair
Yad Vashem research situates the embattled Holocaust-era leader among Jewish councils operating under Nazi coercion.
Jan. 28, 2026
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The opening ceremony of the Conference of European Rabbis at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Jan. 26, 2026. Photo by Canaan Lidor.
Jewish Life
Top rabbis express grief, relief as last Gaza body returns
At a Western Wall event, Israel’s chief rabbis and European counterparts reflected on the closing of a painful chapter.
Jan. 27, 2026
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Transportation Minister Miri Regev (third and fourth from right) pose with European lawmakers at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Israel on Jan. 25, 2026. Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
World News
Netanyahu calls Europeans allies in civilizational struggle
Hosting Patriots of Europe MEPs, the Israeli leader warned of radical Islam, the far left and mass immigration as shared threats to Israel and Europe.
Jan. 26, 2026
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