Retired English teacher identified as one of three Canadians missing in Hamas attack

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Judith Weinstein Haggai, 70, has been identified as one of three Canadians still missing after Hamas killed more than 1,400 people, including five Canadians, in a brutal attack on Israel.

Haggai, 70, and her husband, Gad Haggai, 72, were on a walk in Nir Oz last weekend when air sirens went off, according to news reports.

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Iris Haggai Liniado, was in contact with her mother via Whatsapp and they were able to exchange messages before losing contact.

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“My mom said she and dad were face down in the fields and that there were hundreds of rockets shooting over their heads,” Liniado told CTV. Liniado’s father reportedly later called an ambulance because he had been shot.

Judith and Gad are still missing.

Liniado said she does not know if her parents survived the attack, but so far Israeli authorities have not found their bodies. The couple may be among the 199 people Israeli officials say Hamas took as hostages to Gaza.

A post on X, formerly known as Twitter, from the Consulate General of Israel in Toronto, said that Weinstein and her husband had been kidnapped to Gaza by Hamas terrorists.

Judith, a retired English teacher from Toronto, had been living in Israel since 1995. Her husband was not Canadian.

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