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

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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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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

Andre Spitzer Andre Spitzer ( he, אנדרי שפיצר; 4 July 1945 – 6 September 1972) was an Israeli fencing master and coach of Israel's 1972 Summer Olympics team. He was one of 11 athletes and coaches taken hostage and subsequently killed by terrorists ...

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,

Henry Hershkowitz Henry Herscovici ( he, הנרי הרשקוביץ, also spelled Hershkovitz; 12 February 1927 – 12 March 2022) was an Israeli sports shooter. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics. He also competed at the 1966, 1 ...

and Zelig Stroch, survived the attack.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shorr, Kehat 1919 births 1972 deaths Israeli male sport shooters Jewish sport shooters Victims of the Munich massacre Deaths by firearm in Germany Romanian emigrants to Israel Romanian Jews Burials at Kiryat Shaul Cemetery

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