作者： Kelsie Hoffman
更新时间： 2026年3月13日 / 美国东部时间下午12:54 / CBS新闻
密歇根州西布卢姆菲尔德市以色列圣殿的拉比乔什·本内特表示，周四发生在其犹太教堂的袭击“本可能是一场更为严重的悲剧”，并将这归功于工作人员的安全培训挽救了生命。
“作为犹太社区的一员，我们已经做好了应对这类威胁的准备，”本内特周五在接受《CBS早间新闻》采访时表示。
“我们有一支完整的安全团队，其职责是保障我们的安全，同时也会培训我们在这类事件发生时知道该怎么做，”本内特说，“所以我们知道类似的事情可能会发生。当然，我们希望并祈祷这种情况永远不会发生。”
当一名男子驾车撞向建筑时，本内特表示，建筑内的所有人“都做了他们应该做的事情”。
警方称，保安开枪击毙了嫌疑人艾曼·穆罕默德·加扎利。消息来源称，加扎利是一名出生于黎巴嫩的美国公民，其车辆中携带了步枪和爆炸物。
一名保安在此次事件中受伤，但建筑内的其他人都安全撤离，包括幼儿园的所有儿童。
以色列圣殿的工作人员卡西·科恩表示，她当时正站在汽车撞破建筑的走廊附近。她和其他几名工作人员“听到一声巨响和砰的一声”，“立刻意识到出了问题”。她们成功躲进了附近她的办公室。
“老实说，这完全是一种本能反应，”科恩说，“我们受过这方面的培训，所以我们都知道不应该靠近那个区域，我们最好的做法是锁在一个安全的地方。”
本内特说，幼儿中心约有140名学生“立即被带离了建筑”，并在老师的带领下前往附近的集合点。“由于我们都接受过相关培训，整个过程自然且平静地完成了，所有人都安全无恙，这真的很不可思议，”他补充道。
拉比表示，他们将采取措施照顾教师和工作人员的心理健康。
“在我们渡过这个难关后，我们将恢复正常运营，因为这是我们作为一个强大犹太社区的责任，”他说。
美国联邦调查局正在领导此次调查，并表示此次袭击正被作为“针对犹太社区的有针对性的暴力行为”进行调查。
密歇根州州长格雷琴·惠特默称此次袭击是“每个社区最可怕的噩梦”，并表示这是“赤裸裸的仇恨”。她敦促美国人在她所说的反犹主义浪潮日益高涨之际“降低言论的攻击性”。
本内特表示，最重要的一点是社区的准备工作取得了成效：“对我来说，最重要的收获是，如果一个社区重视培训、重视安全细节、确保人们的安全并让每个人都采取相应行动，我们就能保护我们的社区安全。”
Rabbi credits training for saving lives and says Michigan synagogue attack “could have been a far worse tragedy”
By Kelsie Hoffman
Updated on: March 13, 2026 / 12:54 PM EDT / CBS News
Rabbi Josh Bennett of Temple Israel says the attack at his synagogue in West Bloomfield, Michigan, on Thursday “could have been a far worse tragedy,” and he credits the staff’s security training for saving lives.
“As part of the Jewish community, we are ready for these kinds of threats,” Bennett told “CBS Mornings” in an interview Friday.
“We have a full security team who is tasked with keeping us safe but also training us to know what to do in the event of one of these events,” Bennett said. “So we knew something like this might happen. Of course we hope and pray that it never does.”
Bennett said everyone in the building “did exactly what they were supposed to do” when a man rammed his vehicle into the building.
Police said security guards shot and killed the suspect, Ayman Mohamad Ghazali. Sources say Ghazali, a Lebanese-born U.S. citizen, had a rifle and explosives in the vehicle.
One security guard was injured in the incident, but everyone else in the building got out safely, including all the children at the preschool.
Cassi Cohen, a staff member at Temple Israel, said she was standing near the hallway where the car breached the building. She and several other staff members “heard a loud crash and a bang” and “immediately knew that something was wrong.” They were able to hide in her office nearby.
“It was honestly just a gut instinct,” Cohen said. “We have been trained for this and so we all knew that we should not be near that or in the area and the best thing for us to do was to lock down in a secure area.”
There were about 140 students at the early childhood center who were “taken out of the building immediately” and went with their teachers to a nearby reunification site, Bennett said. “And because of the training that we’ve all gone through, it happened naturally and calmly and it was really miraculous that everybody was safe,” he added.
The rabbi said they’ll be taking steps to care for the mental health of the teachers and staff.
“When we get through this, we are going to go back to business as usual because that is our obligation as a strong Jewish community,” he said.
The FBI is leading the investigation and said the attack is being investigated as a “targeted act of violence against the Jewish community.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer called the attack “every community’s worst nightmare,” and said it was “hate, plain and simple.” She urged Americans to “lower the rhetoric” amid what she called a rising wave of antisemitism.
Bennett said a key message is that the community’s preparedness paid off: “I think that the most important takeaway for me is if a community pays attention to the training, to a security detail, to making sure that the people are safe and everybody acts accordingly, we can keep our communities safe.”
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