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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.

Some 5,000 natural deaths were counted as war fatalities, methodology too erratic to be trusted.
Described by some as spontaneous reactions to Israeli provocations, the assaults emerged in court as antisemitic, ruthless—and meticulously planned.
Encountering wartime devastation, Israeli northerners initiate a revival that they say will only strengthen their cherished communities.
At an impromptu party in Majdal Shams, one local said regime change would expedite the minority’s integration—and peace.
Days after a synagogue’s torching in Melbourne, a car was set ablaze and the words “Kill Israel” sprayed on a garage door in Woollahra.
The device is being probed by the country’s serious crimes unit.
Anthony Albanese decried the rise in antisemitism in his country, but declined to address Israel’s claims it’s due to his cabinet’s treatment of Israel.
Eighth-graders’ score decreased by 30 points, resulting in a slide from 11th place internationally to 23rd, just behind the United States.