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Monday, June 22, 2026
ZAKA says Jewish man critically wounded in Montreal shooting
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This post has been updated with later developments.
The ZAKA organization named a man they said was killed in today’s shooting in Montreal, but then later backtracked and said the man they identified was instead seriously wounded.
The organization said late Monday that Michael Mizrahi was seriously wounded and is need of prayers as he undergoes emergency surgery.
Police have confirmed that a civilian and a police officer were killed in the shooting in a Jewish neighborhood of Montreal. None of their identities have been confirmed by authorities.
It is not clear whether the intended targets of the shooting were Jewish, but Rabbi Motti Seligson, a Chabad spokesman in New York, tells the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that, based on what he has heard from Chabad representatives in Montreal, the shooting does not seem to be related to the Jewish community.
Many members of the Jewish community are sheltering in place on the street where the attack took place, with two telling JTA that, to the best of their knowledge, the attack did not appear to be targeting Jews.
Yitzhak Rosenblum, a member of the local Chevra Kadisha, a volunteer burial society, says that he was working at his office “when I heard a bunch of cops flying by and I heard some gunshots.”
Côte-des-Neiges was the scene of postwar Jewish settlement as Jewish families ascending from the working to the middle class moved west from the area of St. Laurent Boulevard. The area, with treelined streets studded with duplexes and low-rise apartment buildings, had a friendly neighborhood ambience and lacked the anti-Jewish restrictions some of the wealthier enclaves maintained at the time.
There are a number of Jewish schools and synagogues in the area, including the Spanish and Portuguese synagogue, the oldest congregation in the country, established in 1768 and relocated to the neighborhood in 1947. The neighborhood is now the site of a large Chabad community and a number of Jewish restaurants and delis.
The neighborhood has been targeted by gunfire in recent years, including incidents in 2023 and 2024, where shots were fired at Orthodox schools.
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