An ultra-Orthodox man in his 60s was shot Sunday night outside a synagogue in Miami, Florida.
According to local media reports, Yosef Noach was outside the Young Israel of Greater Miami synagogue when an occupant of a passing car fired six shots at him. Four shots hit his legs, leaving him wounded in moderate condition.
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After receiving first aid at the scene, Noach was evacuated to Miami's Aventura Hospital.
The Miami police have opened an investigation into the attack and are trying to locate the car from which the shots were fired. One of the possibilities being investigated is that the shooting was a hate crime, but it has not been declared as such.
The Jewish Agency said that the circumstances of the shooting point to an anti-Semitic hate crime.
Chairman of the Jewish Agency Isaac Herzog addressed the shooting in a speech to students at a Jewish school in Johannesburg, South Africa, and said that representatives of the Jewish Agency were in close contact with the Miami Jewish community. Herzog said that he believed the shooting was an act of anti-Semitism.
