She was one of 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo shooting and was killed along with the seven journalists, maintenance worker, one visitor and two police officers.

[2] Cayat's father, Georges Khayat, was a Tunisian Jew and practicing gastroenterologist, while her mother worked in the legal profession.

[4] Elsa Cayat was a companion of Paulus Bolten, a shoe designer, and the couple had one daughter, Hortense.

[3] Cayat believed that she could help people find meaning in their personal life and emotional difficulties through her column in Charlie Hebdo.

[14] Elsa Cayat had received threats in connection with her religion and work at Charlie Hebdo over the phone about a month prior to the attack.

"[11] Since the satirical Charlie Hebdo had been printing cartoons about the Prophet Mohammed, it had become a target for Islamic terrorists.

[15] Among the twelve who died at the Charlie Hebdo office, Elsa Cayat was the only woman on staff who was shot.

A couple of weeks before the shooting, Cayat received several anonymous calls telling her to quit, and saying that she would be killed because she was Jewish.

[17] Cayat's funeral was the point of departure for an extended meditation on man's relation to death, mourning and consolation by her friend, the feminist rabbi Delphine Horvilleur.