ZAKA retracted its earlier report and said the Jewish man in Canada was seriously wounded, not murdered. The family asked the public to pray for Moshe Michael ben Miriam.
ZAKA retracted its earlier report on Monday evening and clarified that the Jewish man wounded in the Canada shooting is seriously injured — not murdered, as initially assessed. The correction, issued at 23:43 Jerusalem time, shifts the story's severity from fatal to critical. The family has requested prayers for Moshe Michael ben Miriam's recovery.
This update follows a rapid sequence of ZAKA reports published earlier Monday evening. At 21:41 Jerusalem, ZAKA identified the victim by his prayer name and called for prayers — at that point reporting the man was seriously wounded. By 20:35, earlier versions of the thread had varied: initial wire reports mentioned a shooting near a Chabad center in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges district, with one suspect killed and a second at large; police later confirmed two dead and a Jewish community member seriously wounded (20:35). The Chabad emissary had recounted 100 people evacuated from a hotel into the center (20:35). The drafting of the 21:41 bulletin had already stated 'seriously wounded,' but ZAKA's earlier internal assessment had been 'murder.' The 23:43 retraction formally aligns the record with the serious-injury designation.
As The Zioneer reported at 20:35, the attack involved a gunman dressed in military uniform opening fire in the heavily Jewish neighborhood, killing a civilian and a police officer before being neutralized. Israeli officials were checking for Israeli casualties. The circumstances of the shooting remain under investigation.
The precise chain of events that led ZAKA to initially label the injury as a murder remains unclear. The family's prayer appeal continues.
6 developments
- StrongFamily, hospital: Montreal shooting victim Moshe Michael ben Miriam is alive, in surgery
- StrongZAKA says teams on the ground in Montreal as Jewish community monitors wounded
- DevelopingWZO Chairman Yaakov Hagoel: Montreal shooting a 'wake-up call' for Canada
- StrongJerusalem Shooting: Man seriously wounded in criminal incident in Zur Baher
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