Last Canadian missing in Israel after Hamas attack confirmed dead, family says
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The family of the only Canadian citizen who was still missing after Hamas militants conducted a brutal assault on Israel has confirmed her death.
The family of the only Canadian citizen who was still missing after Hamas militants conducted a brutal assault on Israel has confirmed her death.
A relative says Judih Weinstein Haggai died on Oct. 7, the day of the attacks that killed an estimated 1,200 people, and her body is being held in the Gaza Strip.
The 70-year-old woman’s family says she held Canadian, Israeli and American citizenships.
Weinstein Haggai was born in New York state but moved to Toronto at the age of three, and moved to Israel 20 years later to live with her husband.
She lived in the Nir Oz kibbutz, and was a volunteer who helped Palestinians in Gaza.
Weinstein Haggai made puppets to help teach students English, and often posted haikus and meditations on YouTube.
In an interview earlier this month, Weinstein Haggai’s relatives said she and her husband Gadi Haggai were out on an early-morning walk when the Oct. 7 attacks started.
She sent a text message to members of her community saying that a militant on a motorcycle had shot her husband, and that she was less severely wounded.
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