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The Shafrir synagogue shooting was an attack which was carried out by Palestinian militants on 11 April 1956. [1] Three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, in the farming community of Kfar Chabad (Shafrir).
Attacks on synagogues continued into the twenty-first century. The 2002 Lyon synagogue attack occurred on 30 March 2002, involving a group of masked men using two cars to conduct a vehicle-ramming attack in Lyon, France. After ramming the synagogue, the cars were set on fire. The attack caused severe damage to the synagogue.
Date Target Location Perpetrator (motive) Details 11 April 1956 Shafrir synagogue Kfar Chabad, Israel : Palestinian fedayeen (Palestinian nationalism) : Shafrir synagogue shooting: As part of the Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency, three Palestinian militants who crossed into Israel from Egypt attacked the study hall of a synagogue while it was full of children and teenagers, killing 6 people ...
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UK and US have condemned the deadly attack, after the gunman was shot dead by Israeli police having fled the scene
O – Any other weapons, such as bombs, hand grenades, Molotov cocktails, poison and poisonous gas, as well as vehicle and arson attacks A – indicates that an arson attack was the only other weapon used V – indicates that a vehicle was the only other weapon used E – indicates that explosives of any sort were the only other weapon used
Tel Aviv-based Yael Vias Gvirsman is gathering evidence for families of 54 victims which will include victims of sexual and gender-based violence, she said. She declined to provide details but ...
Kogan was born in 1996 in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem, to Alexander and Etel Kogan. [3] He was raised in his Litvak-Haredi family with his older brother, Reuven. [3] [4] [5]As a teenager, Kogan learned at Yeshiva Maoz Chayil in Jerusalem, Yeshivas Rabbeinu Chaim Ozer in Bnei Brak, and finally at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem. [6]