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. 1919 (MCMXIX) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... This article is about the day of the year. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1972 calendar). ... A Black September operative on a balcony in the Olympic Village in September 1972, during what became known as the Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed. ... The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ... Andre Spitzer (1945 – September 6, 1972) was a fencing master and coach of Israels 1972 Summer Olympics team. ...

Kehat Shorr was born in Romania. There, he devoted himself to the sport of shooting and became an expert shooter. Sadly, he lost a wife and a daughter in the Holocaust. He then 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. A Black September operative on a balcony in the Olympic Village in September 1972, during what became known as the Munich Massacre, in which 11 Israeli athletes were kidnapped and killed. ...

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

See also

• Munich massacre