Elsa Cayat

Cayat was 54-years old when she was murdered in Paris, France on 7 January 2015. She was buried in the Jewish section of the Montparnasse Cemetery.

Since the satirical Charlie Hebdo had been printing cartoons about The Prophet Mohammed, it had become a target for Islamic terrorists. On 7 January 2015, brothers Saïd Kouachi, 34, and Chérif Kouachi, 32, opened fire in the Charlie Hebdo offices. The attackers were believed to be a part of an Iraqi jihadist network. The two gunmen came into an editorial meeting killing Elsa Cayat along with several others. The attackers used automatic rifles killing twelve people. After they killed those who were on their list, they shouted "We have killed Charlie Hebdo! We have avenged The Prophet Mohammed!"

In 2015, she was a recipient of the Legion of Honour award.

She became qualified as a doctor as a 21-years old, and later practiced psychiatry and psychoanalysis in Paris, France. She published books related to psychology. Her first book was published in 1998, A Man + A Woman = What? In 2007, she published her second book Desire and the Whore: The Hidden Stakes of Male Sexuality. Cayat also helped write chapters in the books "Mastering Life" and "Dangerous Childhood, Childhood in Danger?."

Elsa Cayat (French: [ɛlza kaja] ;, 9 March 1960 – 7 January 2015) was a French psychiatrist and psychoanalyst and a columnist for the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France. She was one of 12 victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack and was killed along with the seven journalists, maintenance worker, one visitor and two police officers. She was the only woman working for Charlie Hebdo to die in the attack. She was one of two Jews killed in the attack, along with Georges Wolinski.

Elsa Cayat was born on 9 March 1960 in Sfax, Tunisia. Cayat's father, Georges Khayat, was a Tunisian Jew and practicing gastroenterologist, while her mother worked in the legal profession. Her family moved to the Vincennes department in Paris when she was a toddler.