Retired Canadian Teacher Missing in Israel, Believed Kidnapped With Husband, Held Hostage in Gaza

Hamas terrorists move toward the border fence with Israel from Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, 2023. Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images

A retired English teacher with Canadian citizenship and her husband are missing following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.

Idit Shamir, consulate general of Israel in Toronto and Western Canada, said in a social media update on Oct. 15 that Canadian citizen Judith Weinstein Haggai, a retired English teacher originally from Toronto, “is the 7th known Canadian victim of Hamas’s brutal attack on civilians in Israel.”