{"id":755366,"date":"2026-06-23T07:59:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755366\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T07:59:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T07:59:15","slug":"israeli-reportedly-mistaken-for-attacker-killed-in-montreal-shooting-by-anti-feminis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/755366\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli reportedly mistaken for attacker killed in Montreal shooting by \u2018anti-feminis"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Israeli citizen was shot dead in Montreal near a kosher restaurant and Chabad house<\/a>, and a police officer was also killed in the exchange of fire. But much of the coverage in Canadian media has focused on a reported manifesto left by the gunman, which authorities and experts say reflected anti-feminist incel ideology and hatred of women.<\/p>\n

Israel\u2019s Consulate General in Montreal confirmed to the newspaper La Presse that the Israeli victim in the shooting near the Hilton hotel was Michael Moshe Mizrahi, 68.<\/p>\n

The scene of the shooting in Montreal\n<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe was a beloved member of Montreal\u2019s Jewish community,\u201d the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs said in a statement. \u201cOur thoughts and deepest condolences are with his family, friends and loved ones during this difficult time of unimaginable grief.\u201d<\/p>\n

Israeli and Jewish community sources later said Mizrahi\u2019s family and members of the local Chabad Hebrew-speaking community endured hours without clear information about his fate. According to those sources, Mizrahi may have been mistakenly identified as one of the attackers and shot by a police officer, then remained at the scene after being critically wounded. Canadian authorities have not publicly confirmed those details.<\/p>\n

The shooting also killed Montreal police officer Mohammed Lamine Benredouane, who had served in the city\u2019s police force since 2021. Local police said his death was \u201ca great loss to our organization.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHis sense of duty, dedication and professionalism will remain forever etched in our memory,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n

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Mohammed Lamine Benredouane<\/p>\n

The shooting took place in the C\u00f4te-des-Neiges district of Montreal, a neighborhood that includes a large Jewish population. The incident unfolded near a supermarket, a kosher restaurant and a Chabad house, though the motive remains unclear.<\/p>\n

In addition to the officer who was killed, another police officer was seriously wounded. The shooter was killed at the scene. The incident occurred as Canada is hosting World Cup matches alongside the United States and Mexico.<\/p>\n

ZAKA said it was working to bring Mizrahi to burial in Israel. Moishy Bloch, a ZAKA volunteer from the organization\u2019s international unit and a Montreal resident who was at the scene, described hours of uncertainty.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese were long hours of uncertainty,\u201d he said. \u201cI walked around the scene with the deceased\u2019s son and between the various officials to understand what had happened to his father. Only after a long time did we receive the official confirmation that he had been killed at the scene.\u201d<\/p>\n

Canadian media reported that the gunman left behind a manifesto of about 100 pages, which suggested he had adopted incel ideology. According to the reports, the manifesto obtained by Montreal police expressed concern over male loneliness and blamed women\u2019s sexual liberation for it. The same anti-feminist ideology has been cited in several attacks around the world in recent years, including the 2018 attack in Toronto.<\/p>\n

Although the gunman did not explicitly state in the manifesto that he belonged to the movement, La Presse quoted M\u00e9lissa Blais, a sociology professor at a university in Quebec, as saying that \u201cthe vocabulary and ideas that appear in it are faithful to incel philosophy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The manifesto reportedly referred to the concept of \u201chypergamy,\u201d the idea that women seek men who are taller, wealthier and more successful, and included expressions of romantic and sexual rejection.<\/p>\n

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Security forces near the supermarket where the shooting began<\/p>\n

It also argued that men in the West suffer from loneliness and social isolation, and pointed, among other things, to women\u2019s sexual liberation as a cause. The manifesto also attacked the pornography industry and capitalism. According to Blais, the proposed solution was political. \u201cThis is a clear call for armed struggle,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The manifesto reportedly called for rebellion against police forces, which it described as corrupt, even at the cost of combat deaths. Videos from the scene showed security forces charging with weapons drawn toward a local branch of the Supermarch\u00e9 PA supermarket chain.<\/p>\n

Several hours after the shooting, Montreal police chief Fady Dagher said at a news conference that police had been called to the scene after a passerby reported hearing gunfire and seeing the barrel of a rifle protruding from a window. Dagher said the shooter\u2019s motive was still unknown.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Chaim Shlomo Cohen, a Chabad emissary in Montreal, told ynet earlier that the shooting was directed at a building near the Chabad house.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe shooting was toward a building close to the Chabad house. They fired from the hotel at another building,\u201d he said. Cohen said Canadian police evacuated people from nearby hotels into the Chabad house.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was sitting in my office, and suddenly police officers came in and said no one was allowed to leave the building, and evacuated people from hotels to us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A witness named Brandon, who lives nearby, told Canada\u2019s CTV that he heard \u201c10 or 12 shots in a row.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cParents and children ran from the park in panic,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are all in complete shock that this is happening in our neighborhood, which is usually quiet. We are surrounded by schools. It is usually a very family-oriented area.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Israeli citizen was shot dead in Montreal near a kosher restaurant and Chabad house, and a police…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":755367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[49,48,2338],"class_list":["post-755366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-montreal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=755366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/755366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/755367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=755366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=755366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=755366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}