Ottawa woman is 3rd Canadian dead in Israel attack, family says
A third Canadian has died in Israel following a weekend attack by the militant group Hamas, her family said in a statement shared Wednesday at a press conference by an Ottawa Jewish group.
Adi Vital-Kaploun, who is Israeli-Canadian, was killed in the coordinated and deadly assault in Israel over the weekend, the statement from her family said.
The statement said she was “murdered by terrorists in her home, just for being Jewish.”
The family did not speak with reporters, but Andrea Freedman, president and CEO of the Jewish Federation of Ottawa shared their statement at a press conference on the family’s behalf.
“Adi brought love, laughter and a sense of purpose to her patents and siblings, the one always leading the way in a very close family,” said Freedman. “Her love was like rays of sunshine, warming the world around her with her smile, her warmth and compassion.
The family said that while her children were “miraculously home and safe, she is not.”
Her family went on to say that she had recently finished her Masters degree after completing a degree in chemical engineering and had a career in cybersecurity.
Freedman told reporters that Vital-Kaploun has family in Ottawa, but lived in Israel and was killed on her kibbutz – what is considered an intentional community in the country traditionally based on agriculture. She added her burial would also take place in Israel.
“We are standing with the people of Israel in their fight against the terrorists that undertook this heinous act,” the family wrote in the statement. “Adi will be greatly missed by her family and many friends; we are in mourning trying to process this unconscionable act of terrorism in her kibbutz and across the country.”
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