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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 Oct.2 Manchester synagogue terror attack triggered a 183% weekly surge in cases, the Community Security Trust says.
A Jewish community leader protested the “offensive” shift to a Holocaust memorial monument opposite the prayer house, amid a spike in antisemitism.
CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper said the tunnel’s unearthing helped enforce the Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire.
Coalition agreement states that the Netherlands is committed to a “viable Palestinian state alongside a secure Israel.”
Police probe unauthorized posters as a string of recent antisemitic incidents highlights a surge in hate crimes across Australia.
Rachel Touitou, summoned by a French judge over alleged complicity in genocide for protesting aid to Gaza, says charges against her and fellow activist Nili Kupfer-Naouri are a test case aimed at later prosecuting French citizens who served in the IDF.
The draft law would let authorities block gatherings deemed antisemitic under the IHRA definition, including certain forms of anti-Israel speech.
The destruction of property at Beth Hannah elementary drew firm condemnations amid memories of the 2012 Toulouse massacre.
“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.
Shahid Butt spent five years in a Yemeni prison for plotting to bomb the British consulate there.
On several occasions covering International Holocaust Remembrance Day, presenters said 6 million “people” had been killed by the Nazis.
Gidi Markuszower cited perceived leadership failures on the part of pro-Israel Party for Freedom head Geert Wilders as the reason for the move.