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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.

An Islamist group that had claimed responsibility for previous attacks on Jews in Europe was said to also be behind the one in Flanders.
A tie between hardliner Micha Halevi and moderate Kalman Ber requires a later second round.
The downgrade, which knocks Israel down to Spain’s level, is due to “geopolitical risk” and judicial reform issues, the credit rating agency says.
Hundreds appear to have left an iconic Jewish city that at-risk residents say must not be evacuated.
A board member quits and prominent personalities mock the association over its concern for the pro-Hamas Qatari network.
Searching for inspiring wartime stories, a JNS reporter discovers all he needs to do is look around.
A caricature of a clueless American academic, Lyle Culpepper amuses hundreds of thousands online with his enthusiasm for “Ji-hottie” terrorists.
Sheffi Paz received 45 days in prison for a graffiti that read: “German money kills Jews.”
The court finds the ban nondiscriminatory while it also states that the municipality had applied it to Jews but not to Muslims.