LOADING ERROR LOADINGWEST BLOOMFIELD, Mich. (AP) — A man with a rifle who crashed into a large Michigan synagogue in what federal officials are saying was an attack had lost four family members in an Israeli airstrike in his native Lebanon last week, an official said Friday. AdvertisementAn Israeli airstrike killed four people in the eastern Lebanon town of Mashgharah on March 5, Lebanon’s state agency and the Lebanese Health Ministry reported. The official said that Ayman Ghazali’s father was in the U.S. and returned to Lebanon recently. AdvertisementCassi Cohen, director of strategic development at Temple Israel, was in the hallway where the crash happened. Temple Israel has 12,000 members, according to its website.

Source: Huffington Post March 13, 2026 18:40 UTC