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ND Tantur
Shelter-in-place, October 7, 2023
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedConfirmed Threat
On the morning of Saturday, October 7, 2023, Notre Dame undergraduates at the Jerusalem Global Gateway at Tantur (on the southern edge of Jerusalem) were woken by air-raid sirens as Hamas launched the surprise attack from Gaza that began the Israel–Hamas war. Staff evacuated students to a bomb shelter as a rocket landed roughly a mile and a half west of the campus. Three days later, on October 10, University President Rev. John I. Jenkins announced that the Tantur program was suspended and that all students would be relocated to other Notre Dame international sites, ultimately Notre Dame London at Fischer Hall on Trafalgar Square, where they completed the semester.
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Institution
University of Notre Dame Jerusalem Global Gateway (Tantur)
Private R1 · IN
All ND Tantur cases →~20 studentsND Alert (Global Safety & Security)
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Alert Sequence
3 messages in sequence · 1 verified verbatim
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Given the current situation in Israel, we have relocated our students who were studying in Jerusalem to other Notre Dame International locations. We will continue to support our relocated students and ensure that their transitions are as smooth as possible. We have temporarily suspended our study abroad program at Tantur and will continue to assess the situation as it develops.
Saddened by the outbreak of war in the Holy Land, I join with many in abhorring the killing of non-combatants and I echo the Holy Father's call to pray for all victims of the current conflict, for an end to the cycle of violence, and for a lasting peace with justice. I welcome all of our Notre Dame family to join us for this evening's interfaith prayer service for peace and protection of the innocent.
Father Jenkins's statement was issued from the South Bend campus on October 10, 2023 (three days after the October 7 attack) and is the formal closure-and-relocation message of record
Students were relocated specifically to Notre Dame London at Fischer Hall on Trafalgar Square, the University's largest Global Gateway and the natural fallback for a Tantur-class undergraduate cohort
The University maintained 'temporarily suspended' framing rather than permanent closure, consistent with Notre Dame's institutional posture that Tantur and the Tantur Ecumenical Institute remain core to its global mission
Supervisor rule-0 audit (2026-07-18): demoted from isVerbatimConfirmed:true -- this text is a public statement from the president's news page (register, retrospective framing, and pastoral reflection all mark it as a press statement) with no evidence it was actually transmitted as an alert/email to Tantur students or the wider community.
Context
Background
Notre Dame's Jerusalem Global Gateway at Tantur (formally the University of Notre Dame at Tantur (UNDT)) sits on a hilltop on the southern edge of Jerusalem, near Bethlehem and the West Bank boundary. It hosts a small undergraduate study-abroad cohort each semester alongside the Tantur Ecumenical Institute. On the morning of October 7, 2023, students were woken by air-raid sirens as Hamas's surprise attack triggered Home Front Command alerts across central and southern Israel, and a rocket impact was reported roughly a mile and a half west of the campus. Staff evacuated students to the on-site bomb shelter. Over the following 72 hours, Notre Dame's Global Safety and Security team (operating from Notre Dame Police's global-safety duty desk) coordinated the relocation of all Tantur students to Notre Dame London at Fischer Hall on Trafalgar Square. On October 10, Father John Jenkins issued a public statement confirming the temporary suspension of the Tantur program and the relocation. The case is included in the archive both as a study in how a U.S. study-abroad site can layer its student-accountability messaging on top of Israeli Home Front Command sirens, and as the closest publicly reported rocket impact to any U.S.-affiliated campus on October 7.
Analysis
Key Findings
Notre Dame's Tantur Global Gateway was the closest publicly documented U.S.-affiliated study-abroad site to an October 7, 2023 rocket impact, reported as approximately a mile and a half west of campus
The University's response combined real-time shelter operations (under Israeli Home Front Command guidance) with a 72-hour relocation pipeline to Notre Dame London, illustrating the operational value of a multi-gateway global network
Father Jenkins's October 10 statement is the formal closure-and-relocation message of record and remains the model used by Notre Dame for subsequent Middle East crisis communications
Outcome
All Notre Dame Tantur students sheltered safely and were relocated to Notre Dame London within days. No casualties among the Notre Dame community. The Tantur program remained suspended through 2024.
Provenance
Sources
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Cite this case
Campus Alert Archive. "University of Notre Dame Jerusalem Global Gateway (Tantur): Shelter-in-place, October 7, 2023." Incident of October 7, 2023. Added May 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/notre-dame-tantur-jerusalem-evacuation-2023-10-07/
Alert text quoted on this page remains the work of the issuing institution; the archive is a secondary source.
Tags
shelter-in-placeoverseas-campusinternationalisraeljerusalemtanturoctober-7hamas-attackprivate-r1notre-damestudy-abroadrelocationhome-front-command
Added May 2026Updated July 2026Via ingestion