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<\/p>\nIn an interview, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath said Chabad Montreal and the Mizrahi family chose the location, which was near the site of the attack, to transform a place marked by violence into one of remembrance and solidarity.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFor the Jewish people \u2026 marking that place is not necessarily about the past but the future,\u201d Bernath said. \u201cComing together, being together, standing shoulder to shoulder, and then looking towards the future.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police said the suspect opened fire outside the hotel before exchanging gunfire with responding officers. Quebec provincial police continue to investigate the shooting, while Quebec\u2019s police watchdog is investigating the police intervention, as required whenever someone dies during a police operation.<\/p>\n
After Mizrahi\u2019s family travelled to Israel following a ceremony that took place on June 24 to mourn Mizrahi, Bernath said many members of Montreal\u2019s Jewish community were left wondering how they could show their support. <\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a lot of people here in the community that felt like, \u2018Here we are kind of grappling with all of this, and what do we do?’\u201d he said. The gathering, he added, gave Montrealers a chance to show the family \u201cthat we\u2019re here and we\u2019re supporting them, and this is a very difficult time for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
That support extended across continents. Mizrahi\u2019s family, who remained in Israel observing shiva, listened to the ceremony live. A large screen had been set up so attendees could see them, but strong winds knocked it over early in the evening and organizers did not put it back up.<\/p>\n
Despite the weather, attendees remained in place, many standing under umbrellas as the ceremony continued.<\/p>\n
For Bernath, the evening reflected something larger than a single memorial. The response from the community, he said, had been unlike anything he had witnessed in more than two decades in Montreal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis has really been an example of a togetherness that I have never seen before in Montreal,\u201d he said, adding that people stepped forward to support both the Mizrahi family and the family of Benredouane. <\/p>\n
Among those attending was Cmdr. St\u00e9phane Rodrigue of the Montreal police\u2019s Station 26, where Const. Benredouane worked.<\/p>\n
Addressing the crowd, Rabbi Mendel Raskin, Mizrahi\u2019s rabbi, urged those gathered to honour the victims through acts of kindness and compassion. <\/p>\n
Raskin also recalled one of the many acts of generosity he said defined Mizrahi\u2019s life. Several years ago, he said Mizrahi stopped to help a woman sitting on a bench with two children after noticing she was crying. After learning she needed groceries, Raskin said Mizrahi quietly paid for her purchases before leaving.<\/p>\n
At Mizrahi\u2019s funeral last week, Raskin said several people later told him Mizrahi spent his final moments urging them to leave the area or seek shelter moments before dozens of shots were fired.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere are people in this room today who were saved by Michel,\u201d Raskin said during that ceremony.<\/p>\n
The Montreal police service announced Tuesday that a memorial ceremony honouring Benredouane\u2019s life will take place July 7 at the Bell Centre, a downtown Montreal arena.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n
Charlotte Glorieux, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an interview, Rabbi Yisroel Bernath said Chabad Montreal and the Mizrahi family chose the location, which was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":774794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194292],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2338,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-774793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-montreal","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-montreal","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774793","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=774793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/774794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}