Kehat Shorr

Kehat Shorr (1919 - September 6, 1972) was the shooting coach for the 1972 Israeli Olympic team. He was one of the 11 members of Israel's Olympic team who were taken hostage and subsequently murdered by Black September operatives at the 1972 Summer Olympics. He was seen once during the hostage crisis, standing next to fellow coach Andre Spitzer at a second-floor window of their besieged building while terrorists trained guns on the pair.

Kehat Shorr was born in Romania. There, he devoted himself to the sport of shooting and became an expert shooter. After losing his wife and a daughter in the Holocaust, he moved to Israel in 1963 and lived in Tel Aviv. He joined the “Hapoel” shooting team and quickly became its coach, training many young Israeli marksmen. He trained the national team for the Twentieth Olympics Games in Munich.

The Israeli team was sleeping in their quarters in the early morning hours of September 5, 1972, when the terrorist group Black September came in and took several of the Israeli athletes hostage after murdering two of those who resisted. The German authorities failed to rescue 9 hostages, including Kehat Shorr, resulting in their deaths.

Neither of Shorr's two shooters, Henry Hershkowitz and Zelig Stroch, was harmed during the hostage crisis.

ee also

*Munich massacre