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Beryl Wajsman: Michel Mizrahi moved from Israel to Montreal only to lose his life to a Canadian terrorist

Yet his legacy will not be defined by the cruel irony of the manner of his death. It will be defined by the manner of his life

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MONTREAL — I last saw Michel (Moshe) Mizrahi last Saturday, when he came to synagogue to celebrate the birthday of a mutual friend. Who could have imagined that this would be the last time I would see him, some 30 years after we first met?

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Yet so it was. Michel was the innocent civilian victim of a shootout that occurred on Monday in Montreal. How searingly we can now all understand the eternal title of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, “For Whom The Bell Tolls.”

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The title was taken from the opening meditation by the English poet John Donne in his Meditation XVII: “No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.… Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls.”

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