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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 26 families living in Trump Heights congratulate the president but are focused on quadrupling the population of their community in Israel’s north.
The Israeli Supreme Court’s ruling dismisses a petition against compensating victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks with P.A. funds.
A manager of the Tschuggen Grand Hotel Arosa is said to have kicked out eight people after an argument, telling them it was because they’re Jews.
“If Israelis don’t control it, they don’t control Gaza,” Middle East analyst Daniel Pipes says of the Philadelphi Corridor.
Opponents in Jerusalem warned that concessions would invite further abductions, while in Tel Aviv demonstrators said a deal with Hamas was the only moral move.
If right-wing discontent over the terms spreads, the prime minister’s seat may depend on forging alliances with his most adamant rivals.
The Tikva Forum urged right-wing parties to leave the government if the prime minister agrees to a deal that fails to secure the release of all hostages.
During a visit to Israel, Sebastian Kurz insisted that the Freedom Party were “extremely supportive” of his stances on Jews and Israel.