Diaspora Jewry
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.
At 6:47 p.m., memorials and moments of silence honored those slain in the antisemitic attack in Sydney.
“We appreciate the Trump administration’s strong commitment to combat antisemitism,” Israel’s foreign minister said.
Christian Zionists, who came on buses from across the Netherlands, accounted for a majority of participants.
New South Wales Police identified 50-year-old father of four, a non-Jewish passerby, as the 14th victim killed in the Bondi Chanukah massacre.
A liberal as a young man, he later emerged as one of the most prominent American Jewish conservative thinkers in the United States.
The delegation includes experts in trauma response, mass-casualty events and community recovery.
Australian prosecutors charged the surviving accused gunman with 59 terror-related offenses over the Chanukah attack that killed 15 and wounded dozens.
“I demand that they act—now,” the Israeli leader said.
“Among U.S. adults who were raised Jewish and still identify as Jewish by religion, 60% say liking the traditions is an extremely or very important reason they are Jewish,” the Pew survey found.
Investigators are probing a Philippines training trip the father-and-son gunmen took weeks before the Bondi Beach shooting that killed 15 people.
