up and denounce it to ensure this never happens again," he said in a statement. Irwin Cotler, who is a graduate of United Talmud Torahs, also responded to the incident, saying "anti-Semitism is not something new to me. But this kind of racist hate, this kind of violence, an attack of this nature, that was never something that we could have contemplated at that time as students." The Canadian Library Association published a special issue of School Libraries in Canada devoted to the tragedy. HarperCollins, Random House and other leading publishers have donated books to rebuild the UTT library. Donations from across Canada, the United States and Israel helped to rebuild the library which reopened in December 2004, named the Azrieli Library in honour of Stephanie Azrieli, UTT’s school librarian from 1975 to 1985. Further funds went into improving the safety and security of the school, with the installation of exterior lights, a new fire alarm and a security camera system. In accordance with Jewish law, on November 30, the remnants and ashes of some 250 library books burned in the fire were buried in a Jewish cemetery in Dollard-des-Ormeaux. Academics In the 2007 Fraser Institute Quebec secondary school rankings, Herzliah Snowdon's English section was tied with Collège Jean-Eudes and Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf for top high school in the province. In 2008, the Ministry of Education of Quebec announced that Herzliah High School ranked first among English private high schools with a 100% graduation rate. In 2018, Herzliah was ranked 77th in the province (out of 452) by the Fraser Institute. Notable people Bernard Avishai (1949– ), writer Danna Azrieli (1967- ), a real-estate developer, and philanthropist. Stephanie Azrieli, former librarian of the St. Laurent elementary school Adam Braz (1981– ), former soccer player and former Technical Director of Montreal Impact Irwin Cotler (1940– ), human rights lawyer and former Justice Minister Leonard Cohen (1934–2016), poet, singer, and novelist Jacques Distler (1961– ), physicist Tooker Gomberg (1955-2004), activist for environmental causes. Ariel Helwani (1982– ), MMA journalist Goldie Hershon (1941– ), activist Anthony Housefather (1971– ), Liberal MP and Mayor of Côte Saint-Luc Charles Krauthammer (1950–2018), columnist and physician Jonah Keri (1974– ), baseball writer Irving Layton (1912–2006), poet Robert Libman (1960– ), politician and architect Lazarus Phillips (1895–1986), lawyer and senator Hugh Segal (1950– ), politician Dov Yosef (1899–1980), Israeli politician and statesman Moses Znaimer (1942– ), Canadian broadcasting pioneer