{"id":571179,"date":"2026-08-02T03:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571179\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T03:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T03:10:10","slug":"kosher-restaurant-in-montreal-burned-down-in-apparent-arson-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/571179\/","title":{"rendered":"Kosher Restaurant In Montreal Burned Down In Apparent Arson Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Montreal police said Saturday they were investigating a suspected arson attack that targeted N\u00f6am, a kosher restaurant in the Canadian city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Emergency services were called to the restaurant at around 3:15 a.m. Saturday. Firefighters brought the blaze under control several hours later, and no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">The fire comes amid a sharp rise in antisemitic incidents across Canada since the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel, with Montreal among the cities that have seen repeated attacks targeting Jewish institutions, including shootings and firebombings. <\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Jewish life in Canada is under attack\" class=\"Lazy_poster__hZbms\" data-is=\"lazy-image\" data-observed-item-id=\"https:\/\/i24israel.vod.immergo.tv\/i24israel\/transcoded\/1c0af19f-c607-42ff-868e-c9c9771878a0\/poster.jpg\"\/>Jewish life in Canada is under attack<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Asked whether investigators believed the restaurant had been targeted in a hate crime, Montreal police spokesperson Rapha\u00ebl Bergeron said authorities had not yet established a motive. &#8220;We don&#8217;t have any indication at this time, but we&#8217;re going to look at all the possibilities,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">Mount Royal Liberal MP Anthony Housefather urged police to investigate the incident as a hate crime, saying he was &#8220;absolutely disgusted&#8221; by the apparent arson attack on a Jewish-owned business. <\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-is=\"component-paragraph\">&#8220;This attack on a Jewish-owned business must be investigated as a hate crime and those involved in this criminal act must be caught and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,&#8221; he wrote on social media.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Montreal police said Saturday they were investigating a suspected arson attack that targeted N\u00f6am, a kosher restaurant in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":571180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-571179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=571179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/571179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/571180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=571179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=571179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=571179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}