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Canaan Lidor is an experienced journalist and international correspondent for JNS, covering Europe, Australia and global Jewish affairs. 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 Yad Hana, Israel, with his wife and two children.

Conservatives examined Israel’s high birthrates—and debated whether duty or self-fulfillment can revive family life across the West.
Twenty British diplomats will leave Israel; seven remain under an agreement that pauses retaliation while talks continue.
“Did Ceuta make you feel threatened? Imagine they’d come in to kill us. That was 7 October in Israel,” read one of the messages of the campaign, launched by the Spanish pro-Israel group ACOM.
SafeHeart, an Israeli mental-health support non-profit, reports rising distress among survivors, with 79% recognized as having a psychiatric disability and many struggling to return to work amid what it claims is inadequate state support.
A legal opinion backs the proposal amid constitutional concerns from Germany’s federal government and reservations from Jewish leader Josef Schuster.
At an inauguration, the father of Ariel and Kfir recalled the fateful decision in Nir Oz to resist terrorists before his children and wife Shiri were killed.
Police cited heightened terrorism concerns and high antisemitism ahead of the third anniversary of Hamas’s massacre.
The finance minister outlined his territorial agenda at Jerusalem’s first NatCon conference, three weeks before Israel’s election.
The Greens’ anti-Zionist resolution, following Labour’s shift against Jerusalem, sharpens debate over electoral gains and the risks to local Jews.
AfD and Die Linke election victories deepen concerns over antisemitism and test the political center’s ability to keep both parties from power.
Yonatan Krilensky and Yevgeny Gurevitch left their native country years ago, but were reportedly detained there during a visit amid a recruitment shortage.
Signatories demand public redress for Ariana Harwicz after Granada organizers cited her opposition to cultural boycotts of Israel.