Australia
Canberra summoned both houses of parliament in a special sitting to commemorate the 15 people shot and killed in mid-December on Bondi Beach.
In a letter to Cabinet minister Tony Burke, Israel’s Diaspora affairs minister offered assistance in training security personnel.
Ruling party politicians who resist efforts to establish a national inquiry into the Bondi Beach Chanukah massacre should not be welcomed, AJA says.
Maimon Amir praised Ahmed al Ahmed’s bravery for confronting a gunman who opened fire on civilians, including children and women, calling him a “true hero.”
Sajid Akram, 50, and his 24-year-old son Naveed Akram “are alleged to have acted alone,” police stated.
“We need to know why clear warning signs were ignored, how antisemitic hatred and Islamic extremism were allowed to grow,” families wrote the PM.
“If someone comes here for the purposes of hate, they can leave,” Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke told the press.
Citing the mass shooting of 15 people in Australia during Chanukah, the board resolved “to rid this world of the disease of antisemitism.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog will be invited “as soon as possible,” on the recommendation of the Australian government, according to Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The alleged Sydney gunmen are accused of throwing bombs at a Jewish crowd before opening fire from a footbridge.
Combating the hate “requires ordinary people rejecting lies and bias, embracing diversity, humanity and truth,” said Isaac Herzog.
Gefen Bitton was working in Australia as a garage door technician.
