Sydney, Bondi Beach and Hanukkah
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Authorities have confirmed that two rabbis, a Holocaust survivor and a 10-year-old girl were among the victims. This is what we know about those identified so far: Authorities confirmed that a 10-year-old girl, named by her family to local media as Matilda, was among the dead.
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Australia’s Jewish community saw an attack coming but no one expected the Bondi Beach horror
Australia’s deadliest mass shooting in almost 30 years targeted Jewish families on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, one of the country’s most iconic locations, on a one of the most festive days of the Jewish calendar.
SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Australia signalled plans for tougher gun laws on Monday as the country began mourning victims of its worst mass shooting in almost 30 years, in which a father and son duo killed 15 people at a Jewish celebration at Sydney's Bondi Beach.
Local media name the older gunman as Sajid Akram, 50, who died at the scene. His son Naveed Akram, 24, is in a critical condition in hospital.
President Trump mourned the victims of the tragic shootings at Brown University and Bondi Beach in Australia — as well as the killing of three US soldiers in Syria — during a White House Christmas event Sunday.
A man who disarmed a gunman during a deadly attack at Australia’s famous Bondi Beach on Sunday has been hailed as a “genuine hero” by New South Wales Premier Chris Minns
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio had a phone call with Australian foreign minister Penny Wong on Monday to "discuss the antisemitic terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach", the US State Department's spokesperson Tommy Pigott said in a statement. The statement also said the US "strongly condemns the heinous terrorist attack".
Security is being ramped up for the first night of Hanukkah in New York City and Los Angeles as law enforcement agencies went on high alert following a mass shooting at a Jewish celebration in Bondi Beach,