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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.

Firefighters battle the flames to extinguish a bushfire in Mount Pirque at El Hoyo, in the Patagonian region of Chubut province, Argentina, Jan. 10, 2026. Photo by Gonzalo Keogan/AFP via Getty Images.
World News
Argentine pundit apologizes for linking fires to Israelis
Marcela Feudale retracts on-air remark after backlash over antisemitic conspiracy theory,
Jan. 14, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Brit Milah, Circumcision
Jewish Life
UK draft guidance flags circumcision as potential abuse
The prosecutor’s document lists non-medical male circumcision with chest flattening and exorcism, drawing condemnations by a Jewish community leader.
Jan. 12, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Sa'ar, Dobrindt
Israel News
Germany, Israel to sign security, antisemitism pact
The E.U. should designate Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization, FM Gideon Sa’ar told Berlin’s visiting interior minister.
Jan. 11, 2026
Canaan Lidor
“The Jewish High Finance” pamphlet on sale on the website of the Bastion Auctions auction house in Denmark, Jan. 8, 2026. Source: Screenshot/Bastion Auctions.
Antisemitism
Danish auction house peddles antisemitic World War II pamphlet for $7
The screed calls for armed action against the “Jewish threat,” and includes a foreword by a convicted Nazi collaborator.
Jan. 9, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Negohot
Antisemitism
Belgian consulate won’t renew passports of Jewish family in Judea
It is “an illegal form of discrimination by Belgium against its own citizens,” Ralph Pais, vice president of Belgium’s Jewish Information and Documentation Center, told JNS.
Jan. 8, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (left) and Andor Grósz, president of the Federation of Jewish Communities in Hungary, attend the inauguration of the Jewish Charity Hospital in Budapest on Dec. 3, 2025. Photo by Ákos Kaiser/Press Office of the Prime Minister of Hungary.
Israel News
Hungarian textbooks deemed fair, in-depth on Jewish issues
The report on teaching aids followed a speech by Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in which he called Budapest the safest European capital for Jews.
Jan. 8, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Mike O'Hara appears before the home affairs committee of the House of Commons in London, the U.K. on Jan. 6, 2025. Photo: Screenshot from House of Commons live broadcast.
Antisemitism
Israel: UK police scapegoated Jews to justify soccer fan ban
Jerusalem accused West Midlands Police of antisemitism after the cops said visiting Israelis had been a ‘threat’ to Birmingham residents.
Jan. 7, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Sarah B. Rogers
World News
Top US official faults EU over Jewish business map
State Under Secretary Sarah Rogers said the document showed that hate speech laws were used against conservatives but ignored vis-a-vis Jew haters.
Jan. 7, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Athletes compete in the EuroLeague basketball match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Barcelona held at Palau Blaugrana, in Barcelona, Spain on Jan, 6, 2026. Photo by Flash90.
Antisemitism
Spanish teams ban fans from Maccabi basketball matches
Critics of the decision to clear the stands called it a “surrender to jihadism.”
Jan. 7, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Eva Schloss-Geiringer and her husband Zvi Schloss. Photo courtesy of the family.
Antisemitism
Adopted daughter of Anne Frank’s father dies at 96
Eva Schloss-Geiringer, who was born in Vienna and died in London, studied photography at her stepfather’s encouragement and with his help.
Jan. 6, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Mourners gather near the Le Constellation bar in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, where a fire killed around 40 people and injured more than 100 others during New Year’s celebrations, Jan. 2, 2026. Photo by Maxime Schmid/AFP via Getty Images.
Jewish Life
Teen Jewish sisters among 40 dead in Swiss New Year’s fire
The remains of Alicia and Diana Gunst were identified Sunday, whereas another Jewish girl, Charlotte Niddam, is considered missing.
Jan. 4, 2026
Canaan Lidor
Antisemitic graffiti on a road in Ireland, Dec. 30, 2025. Credit: Courtesy of Rachel Moiselle.
Antisemitism
‘Jew rat’ road graffiti reappears in Ireland
Chief Rabbi Yoni Wieder called it “part of a much wider trend that many within Ireland’s political and media class still refuse to acknowledge.”
Jan. 2, 2026
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