Kehat Shorr (; 21 February 1919 – 6 September 1972) was the shooting coach for the 1972

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i Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel's Olympic team killed in the Munich massacre.

Biography

Kehat Shorr was born in

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. There, he devoted himself to

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and became an expert marksman. He moved to Israel in 1963 and lived in Tel Aviv with his wife and daughter. He joined the “Hapoel” team and quickly became its coach, training many young Israeli marksmen. He trained the national team for the Twentieth Olympic Games in Munich.Jew of the Day: Kehat Shorr
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Munich massacre

Kehat was among the Israelis taken hostage and murdered by

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terrorists at the

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. The Israeli team was sleeping in their quarters in the early morning hours of 5 September 1972, when the terrorists raided the compound, murdered two of the Israeli athletes and took the others hostage. Kehat Shorr was photographed standing next to fellow coach

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at the second-floor window of their besieged building while terrorists trained guns on the pair. The German authorities failed to rescue 9 hostages, including Kehat Shorr, resulting in their deaths. Shorr's team members,

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and

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, survived the attack.

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Biography

Munich massacre

See also

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