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On March 12, 2026, a 41-year-old Lebanese-born U.S. citizen rammed a truck into Temple Israel in West Bloomfield, Michigan, where 140 children were in the building's preschool. Armed security guards engaged the attacker, who died at the scene, and trained teachers evacuated every child safely — a result that officials and rabbis credited to years of security investment, active-shooter training conducted just weeks earlier, and the heroism of the synagogue's full-time security team.