The
Mercaz HaRav massacre, also called the
Mercaz HaRav shooting, was a
mass shooting attack that occurred on 6 March 2008, in which a lone
Palestinian gunman shot multiple students at the
Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, a religious school in
Jerusalem,
Israel, after which the gunman himself was shot dead. Eight students and the perpetrator were killed. Eleven more were wounded, five of them placed in serious to critical condition.