“Oct 7 2023”

Israel has tracked down and killed the Hamas terrorist suspected of kidnapping hostages Noa Argamani and Avinatan Or during the October 7 attacks.

Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr supplied weapons to Hamas during the war and rode the motorbike used to kidnap the couple from the Nova music festival and take them into Gaza in 2023.

The terrorist was killed by an airstrike on the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, in an operation carried out by Israel Police’s Gideonim Unit 33.

Saher Nidal Latfi Sakr (@ArgamaniNoa's kidnapper) is shown here performing a magic trick inspired by David Copperfield. pic.twitter.com/Ayf0axFluC

— The Mossad: Satirical and Awesome (@TheMossadIL) September 27, 2026

During the decades I lived in Kingston, Ont., I visited Belleville countless times. It’s on the way to Toronto and was a favourite place for a road-trip milkshake. I often stopped at the imposing St. Michael’s on the hill, where a good friend was the pastor. It’s a friendly place.

I doubt I ever passed the Sons of Jacob Synagogue, where the Yom Kippur shooting took place. It’s not far from the imposing churches nearby, but it is rather modest. It’s not a prominent synagogue in a prominent place. Which made the shooting rather more ominous still.

Canada is not France. Yet.

On the eve of the third anniversary of the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 massacre in Israel, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is seeking “reconciliation” (musalaha) with Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist factions, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ).

Instead of talking about “reconciliation” with Hamas and other terrorist groups, Abbas should be demanding that they surrender their weapons, answer for their actions, and disappear from the Palestinian arena.

He got off some zingers.

On July 30, the Board of Peace announced an agreement for the staged decommissioning of Hamas weapons in the Gaza Strip. Heavy arms and tunnel networks are to be surrendered under international verification while Israeli forces are to withdraw in phases.

Now, however, Hamas says it will hand over nothing until Israel first pulls back. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu notes that Israel never accepted those terms. The sequencing is unresolved and may remain unresolved for months. The shape of the deal is not. Hamas is being offered political survival in exchange for its guns.

CBC National Radio News Reader Neil Herland recounts the intimidation he faced when trying to enter a building to attend Yom Kippur service in Toronto on Monday night, adding that he may have to leave Canada amid rising antisemitism.

“On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building,” wrote Herland in a post on X, where he identifies himself as a journalist and a Jew. His post came a day after a synagogue came under attack in Belleville, Ont., a city about two hours to the east.

I’m a journalist. And I happen to be Jewish. On Yom Kippur I went to a synagogue service in Toronto and was met by protesters trying to taunt and intimidate me from entering the building. 1/5 pic.twitter.com/2eH3MaC9QB

— Neil Herland (@NEWSneil) September 22, 2026

CBC won’t write about this.

BELLEVILLE — Ontario’s Solicitor General has ended all speculation about the motive in the shooting attack on a synagogue here.

This was a terror attack against Jews. Other speculation and theories floated that perhaps it could have been an attack on the officer who happened to be at the synagogue have been ruled out, said Ontario’s top cop.

Around 7 p.m. on Sunday evening, Sons of Jacob Synagogue president Norman Weddum was ushering people into the Belleville, Ont., sanctuary to begin services for Yom Kippur when he heard shots ring out.

“It was boom, boom, boom,” Weddum told CBC News Network on Monday.

The exchange of gunfire outside the synagogue in the southern Ontario community left a man and a police officer wounded, authorities say. The 29-year-old man was hospitalized in life-threatening condition. The officer is in critical but stable condition.

The media and police are not providing much detail. Sounds targeted however.

Jew haters attacked a Synagogue in Bellville Ontario tonight on Yom Kippur. One of my associates was in the Synagogue at the time. They shot 21 shots at the synagogue. One police officer shot and they shot a suspect.

— Israel Now (@neveragainlive1) September 21, 2026

Not much here either … BELLEVILLE SYNAGOGUE SHOOTING THE LATEST: Police officer hospitalized, in stable condition