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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.

Belgian military personnel stand guard outside a synagogue in central Antwerp as part of Belgium's reinforced security measures established at Jewish schools and synagogues, March 23, 2026. Photo by John Thys/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Car torched in Antwerp Jewish quarter, raising terrorism fears
An Islamist group that had claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Jews in Europe was said to also be behind the one in Flanders.
Mar. 24, 2026
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Hatzolah staff treat a patient in London. Credit: Hatzolah UK.
World News
Group behind European synagogue blasts claims London arson
Mar. 24, 2026
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A photo of an artwork by Matthew Collings depicting Israel or Jews as a demon with blood dripping between its teeth hangs at a private gallery in Margate, the U.K. Photo courtesy of Zoe Strimpel.
World News
UK council removes page promoting antisemitic art exhibit
Mar. 24, 2026
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Dutch Party For Freedom (PVV) party leader Geert Wilders (C) leaves after attending formation talks between the PVV, VVD, NSC and BBB factions in The Hague on May 15, 2024. Photo by Sem van der Wal/ANP/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Wilders: Jew-haters must go, and Amsterdam’s mayor can join them
The firebrand Dutch politician doubled down on his remark on the capital’s liberal leader following harassment at a memorial event for murdered Israelis.
Oct. 10, 2024
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Pilar Rahola speaks at an event in Barcelona in 2016. Credit: Courtesy of Debat-t.
Antisemitism
Anti-Israel activists splash red paint on Spanish writer
Pilar Rahola cleaned herself up, continued her lecture at a university near Barcelona and vowed not to be intimidated.
Oct. 9, 2024
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A man standing in a cherry orchard in the northern Israeli Kibbutz Malkia watches smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Mays al-Jabal during Israeli bombardment on May 5, 2024. Photo by Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images.
Feature
In Israel’s deserted north, hundreds endure constant rockets
Anchored by ideology or necessity, residents in highly targeted communities share a dramatic reality and often disagree about how to change it.
Oct. 9, 2024
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Dutch Police Commissioner Janny Knol. Photo Courtesy of the Dutch Police Force
Antisemitism
Dutch top cop seeks dialog on police who refuse to protect Jews
Janny Knol said that the “police are for everyone” but did not condemn a trend that one officer called “the beginning of the end.”
Oct. 7, 2024
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Honey bees Israel
Feature
This year, Israeli honey is made of ‘blood, sweat and tears’
Beekeepers and other apiculture professionals pulled off a major effort to rehabilitate the iconic local industry in time for Rosh Hashanah.
Oct. 2, 2024
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The site of the Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut's southern suburbs, Sept. 29, 2024. Photo by AFP via Getty Images.
Analysis
Does Hezbollah’s disarray leave Iran’s nuke sites vulnerable?
Before the thrashing Israel gave its proxy in Lebanon, the Shi’ite group was seen as a powerful platform for a retaliation by Tehran against Israel.
Oct. 2, 2024
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Pro-Palestinian Protesters in Dublin
Antisemitism
Irish Holocaust-themed cartoon on Israel prompts uproar
The Irish Times caricature depicts an Israeli soldier as acting out of a desire to avenge perceived antisemitism.
Oct. 1, 2024
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Philippe Lazzarini
Israel News
UNRWA chief denies knowing his employee was a Hamas commander
“What’s obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday,” Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva following the death of Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin in Lebanon.
Oct. 1, 2024
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