With heavily armed Toronto police guarding Jewish institutions during Passover, a Jewish-owned restaurant became the city’s latest target of antisemitic gunfire on Friday morning, prompting Israel’s ambassador to Canada to urge authorities to act “before it’s too late.”
Old Avenue restaurant in north Toronto was hit by gunfire around 1:30 a.m. on Friday. CTV reported surveillance video showing a man crossing Avenue Road and firing repeatedly into the restaurant, as well its own footage showing bullet holes in the door to the kitchen at the back of the restaurant.
A second location of the same restaurant had been hit by gunfire last month, along with three Toronto-area synagogues.
Iddo Moed, Israel’s ambassador to Canada, said the Old Avenue shooting was “the 12th incident of its kind in the latest wave of antisemitism and violence against the Jewish community in Canada.”






