'Other than the murderous evil of the two gunmen, where was the antisemitism to be found at Bondi on that terrible day? Nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere,' Flanagna said.
President Isaac Herzog honored the victims of last Chanukah’s Bondi Beach massacre in Australia, joining orphaned children at a Chabad synagogue as they recited Kaddish.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog visited the site of the deadly Bondi Beach terror attack in Australia, placing two Jerusalem stones at the memorial and condemning antisemitism while urging the world to confront it head-on.
Leibel Lazaroff, a Chabad Orthodox Jew wounded in the Bondi Beach attack on the first night of Chanukah, returned to the scene to thank God for saving his life.
Australia’s Parliament dedicated a special session to the victims of the Bondi Chanukah terror attack, with MP Mark Dreyfus delivering a solemn Jewish prayer in a moment of national mourning and unity.
The Muslim hero Ahmed al-Ahmed, who disarmed one of the terrorists during the Bondi Beach massacre, was awarded a menorah for his selfless courage by a group of Jewish philanthropists at the Colel Chabad gala event.
A police prosecutor described the posts as antisemitic and deeply offensive, arguing they formed part of a sustained pattern rather than isolated remarks.
One of the many wounded in the horrific Bondi Beach massacre on the first night of Chanukah, Leibel Lazaroff took his first steps after undergoing multiple surgeries.
Seventeen families urged Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in an open letter to 'immediately establish a Commonwealth Royal Commission into the rapid rise of antisemitism in Australia' and examine 'law enforcement, intelligence and policy failures that led to the Bondi Beach massacre.'
The Iranian Foreign Ministry publicly condemned the 'violent attack' in Sydney, though the statement was vague and made no mention of antisemitism, the local Jewish community, or any specific target.
Police said Naveed Akram, 24, and his father, Sajid, recorded themselves denouncing the actions of “Zionists” while seated in front of an Islamic State flag and surrounded by firearms.
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Only a few months ago, he noted that attendance at the Bondi Beach Chanukah candle-lighting ceremony had grown significantly since October 7, even as threats and hostility increased.
A therapeutic riding school in Israel’s Arava desert, each week takes 200 special needs children and adults into another dimension, and Israel founded Good Deeds Day in 2007, which since then includes blood donations, volunteering with the needy, helping out in animal shelters, and much more.
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