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Alleged Bondi gunman tells bystanders to move away as he shoots at Hanukkah crowd.
December 15, 2025 — 12.52pm
One of the two alleged Bondi gunmen, Naveed Akram, paused his shooting spree to wave people away who were behind him and on the Campbell parade side of the pedestrian footbridge.
Footage shows the alleged father and son shooters walking to the peak of the footbridge on Sunday evening, at about 6.30pm, before shooting north towards a large gathering celebrating the first day of Hanukkah in the park.
As the father, Sajid Akram, 50, runs down steps and closer to the crowds in the park, his 24-year-old son, Naveed, turns to bystanders behind him and to his right, gesturing for them to go away. He then turns back to shoot at crowds in the park.
[https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/alleged-bondi-gunman-tells-bystanders-to-move-away-while-shooting-at-hanukkah-crowd-20251215-p5nnqq.html SMH]
Video: Sydney Gunman Tells Bystanders To Move Away As He Shoots At JewsA senior police official reportedly said authorities took an interest in Naveed Akram six years ago after police foiled plans for an IS terrorist attack.
Dec 15, 2025.
[https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/australia-bondi-beach-shooting-shots-screams-chaos-video-shows-6-minutes-of-relentless-gunfire-in-sydney-all-about-pakistani-shooters-9810390 NDTV]
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‘You Know I’m Arab, Right?’ Jillian Michaels Hits Back at NYT’s Wajahat Ali Calling Her a ‘White Nationalist’.
Sean James.
Mon, December 15, 2025.
[https://www.mediaite.com/media/you-know-im-arab-right-jillian-michaels-hits-back-at-nyts-wajahat-ali-calling-her-a-white-nationalist/ Mediaite]
Washington Free Beacon
@FreeBeacon
WATCH:
After a New York Times writer calls her a “white nationalist” for warning about Islamic extremism, Jillian Michaels reveals her ethnicity.
“You know I’m Arab, right?”
Dec 16, 2025
[https://x.com/FreeBeacon/status/2001013990017614068 on X]
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GUT-WRENCHING GRIEF.
‘No tears left’: Devastated parents of tragic Matilda, 10, pay heartbreaking tribute to youngest Bondi victim at vigil
Matilda was killed in front of her six-year-old sister while celebrating Hanukkah.
Bethan Moss, 16 Dec 2025.
THE heartbroken parents of Matilda Britvan, the youngest victim of the Bondi Beach massacre, have spoken out at a candlelit vigil.
Matilda was just 10 years old when she was shot in the stomach in front of her six-year-old sister.
([https://www.the-sun.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2025/12/2025-sydney-australia-police-say-1046146463.jpg?resize=744,496&quality=80&strip=all].
The parents of 10-year-old Matilda embraced at a candlelit vigil for the Sydney shooting victims)
She had been celebrating Hanukkah with her parents Michael and Valentyna on Bondi Beach, Sydney, when the attack began.
Naveed and Sajid Akram were named as the suspects thought to be responsible for killing 15 people in the massacre which targeted the Jewish community on December 14.
Michael and Valentyna spoke out about the tragedy for the first time today, December 16, addressing a candlelit vigil for the victims.
Speaking through tears, the 10-year-old’s father described Matilda as “the most kindest person, child ever”.
SISTER’S GRIEF Gutwrenching question sister, 6, asked after tragic girl, 10, died in Bondi
BONDI HEROES Moment couple tries to disarm Bondi gunman before dying in each other's arms
He told the crowd how he had named his daughter to honour Australia, after the family had moved to the country from Ukraine.
He said: “I named her Matilda because she was our first Australian.
“We came here from Ukraine and Matilda was my firstborn in Australia.
“I thought that Matilda is the most Australian name that can ever exist.”
[https://www.the-sun.com/news/15649272/no-tears-left-devastated-parents-of-tragic-matilda-pay-heartbreaking-tribute-to-youngest-bondi-victim-at-vigil/ The Sun]
Matilda, a young victim of Bondi massacre, farewelled as families offered funds.
The youngest victim, 10-year-old Matilda, has been remembered as a bright and spirited girl.
Published 18 December 2025.
The youngest and oldest victims of the Bondi Beach Hanukkah shooting have been laid to rest as the community continues grieving after the terror attack.
Scores of friends and family flocked to a funeral home to honour 10-year-old primary school student Matilda, struck down while enjoying the day with her family on Sunday.
As well as her devastated family, mourners included NSW Premier Chris Minns, Governor-General Sam Mostyn, Jewish leader Alex Ryvchin, local Labor MP Matt Thistlethwaite and Opposition leader Sussan Ley, who wiped away tears at the door.
Matilda has been remembered by her school as a "little ray of sunshine" who always brought joy to those around her, and by her aunt as "full of life and happy".
Her grieving father, Michael, asked the crowd gathered at the service in Bondi on Wednesday to remember his daughter's name.
A woman standing outside, holding a newspaper, speaking into microphones.
"I couldn't imagine I would lose my daughter here," Matilda's mother, Valentyna, told a crowd in Bondi. (Source: AAP / Flavio Brancaleone)
"I thought that Matilda was the most Australian name that could ever exist," Michael said.
"So just remember — remember her name."
Jewish funerals do not traditionally take place in a synagogue, with both Matilda and Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, 87, having their funeral service in a centuries-old Sydney Jewish funeral house.
Chevra Kadisha has helped the Jewish community mourn its dead since 1817, including conducting Jewish funerals, known as 'levaya'.
Many of those entering the funeral carried sunflowers and wore stickers adorned with bumblebees, which have been handed out over the past few days to commemorate Matilda.
These are the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack.
The service for Kleytman was held earlier on Thursday morning at the funeral house.
His wife has remembered her Ukrainian-born husband for his resilience and courage after he moved to shield her from gunfire in his last moments.
Government support package
Meanwhile, NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has announced a joint federal and state government support package, including $75,000 for the victims and family members of those killed in Sunday's attack.
He said the package would cover funeral and burial costs, as well as repatriation costs for family members overseas.
A community support hub at North Bondi RSL club, including representatives from the NSW Reconstruction Authority, Service NSW and Lifeline, will also be established.
[https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/matilda-the-youngest-victim-of-the-bondi-massacre-has-been-farewelled-at-a-sydney-funeral/8to9tx2kc SBS]
Heartbreaking Tribute to Matilda at Bondi Beach.
Instagram · dailytelegraph
Dec 16, 2025.
Till this mum and miss Michael said we came from Ukraine. I brought from Ukraine my oldest son like him and I was so happy that he's not fighting for his land and he's safe
[https://www.instagram.com/reel/DSUbJ6Xkn28/ On Instagram]
Bymoalem Israel News:
Dec 16, 2025.
Valentyna and Michael (surnames withheld on family request), who came to Australia as Ukraine immigrants, articulated a heartbreak too vast to fully comprehend as they mourn their 10 year old daughter Matilda, who was killed in Sunday’s terrorist attack.
[https://www.facebook.com/61553119361471/videos/valentyna-and-michael-surnames-withheld-on-family-request-who-came-to-australia-/1184985250482405/ On FB]
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PBS Newshour's Amna Nawaz Downplays Islamist Hanukkah Massacre as Mundane "Shooting" – A Slap in the Face to Jewish Resilience.
PBS Newshour's Amna Nawaz Downplays Islamist Hanukkah Massacre as Mundane "Shooting" – A Slap in the Face to Jewish Resilience.
In a time of surging anti-Semitism, this sanitized coverage erases the targeted hatred against Jews, dishonoring victims, while ignoring the broader jihadist threat. Jews won't be silenced – we'll light our menorahs brighter, stand taller, and demand truth over whitewashing. 🕎✡️
In a time of surging anti-Semitism, this sanitized coverage erases the targeted hatred against Jews, dishonoring victims, while ignoring the broader jihadist threat. Jews won't be silenced – we'll light our menorahs brighter, stand taller, and demand truth over whitewashing. 🕎✡️
[https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2025/12/pbs-newshours-amna-nawaz-downplays.html Just sayin']
[https://justsayingitoutloloud.blogspot.com/2025/12/pbs-newshours-amna-nawaz-downplays.html Just sayin']
PBS Coverage Ignores Islamic Connection in Australia Hanukkah Massacre.
Dec. 17, 2025 . Clay Waters
On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia anti-Semitism to instead discuss wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville, ignoring that even more virulent anti-Semitism was on display in every march in Australia and even in America for over two years now.
[https://mrctv.org/node/596980 MRC]
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Australia Mourns the Youngest Victim of the Bondi Beach Shooting.
Sydney’s devastated Jewish community gathered for the funeral of “Matilda Bee,” an ebullient, smiling 10-year-old girl.
By Damien Cave.
Reporting from Sydney, Australia
Dec. 18, 2025.
Every mourner entering the funeral home in one of Sydney’s oldest Jewish neighborhoods received a sticker that said “Matilda” in purple script, above a smiling bumblebee holding a menorah. A woman in a long, black skirt wiped tears from under her glasses as she placed it on her black blouse.
A grandfather, carrying flowers and a cane, seemed to speak for everyone there for Matilda — a smiling 10-year-old and the youngest of the 15 victims who were killed in Sunday’s horrific attack on a Hanukkah festival by Sydney’s Bondi Beach.
“She should be alive,” he said.
Tears and wails poured forth from Matilda’s parents and family members. They stood at the front, near shiny helium balloons and a mountain of flowers. None of it could obscure the casket at the center of a modest building, built in the 1940s by an earlier generation of Jews who had pushed Australia to become a refuge for Jewish refugees and Holocaust survivors.
The pain of past and present — or just the pain of many — seemed to swirl through the room, intertwining like streams of smoke from sticks of incense.
It had only been a few days since two gunmen, who the authorities said were motivated by Islamic State ideology, opened fire on a crowd of hundreds. Witnesses said they waved bystanders away to target their fire on the Jews who had gathered for the festival of light.
Damien Cave leads The Times’s new bureau in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, covering shifts in power across Asia and the wider world.
[https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/world/asia/australia-matilda-funeral-bondi-shooting.html NYT]
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ISIS praises Bondi Beach massacre as ‘source of pride’ without claiming responsibility.
Terror group endorses deadly attack in Australia's Sydney and also highlights Palmyra ambush
i24NEWS. Ariel Oseran.
December 18, 2025.
9https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/iran-eastern-states/artc-isis-praises-bondi-beach-massacre-as-source-of-pride-without-claiming-responsibility i24 News]
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Open Source Intel @Osint613:
Additional footage of Australian police foiling a suspected terror plot, intercepting five men en route to Bondi Beach to target Jewish mourners at a vigil for recent attack victims. Officers forced their vehicle off the road.
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Sydney police arrested five men near Bondi Beach on suspicion of carrying weapons after a vehicle they were in collided with a police car, officials said. Authorities acted on specific intelligence linking the group to potential threats near the site of Sunday’s deadly attack.
Dec 18, 2025
[https://x.com/Osint613/status/2001616748559389166 on X]
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The Muslim Brotherhood is a global threat, not a movement.
Opinion: Terror attack highlights the global threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam, and the opportunity for Israel to expose extremist networks, counter disinformation and help lead a broader international response
Ella Kenan | published:12.18.25 21:17
The shocking terror attack in Bondi Beach, in which innocent people were killed and wounded, is a painful reminder that the extremist ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood and radical Islam is not a local threat, but a global danger.
Hamas, the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, is only one example of how jihadist ideas cross borders and harm Muslims, Christians, Jews, Hindus and atheists alike, from Europe to Australia, and from the Middle East and Africa to the Americas.
[https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/hkqmp7z7zx YNet]
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Appointee to Zoharah Mamdani's team resigns over antisemitic posts.
Katherine Almonte de Costa, who was supposed to fill a position in the team of New York City Mayor-elect Zoharah Mamdani, resigned following social media posts she published more than a decade ago containing antisemitic statements. De Costa expressed regret about the posts, which were exposed by the Anti-Defamation League. She stated that "the statements reflected in these posts do not represent who I am, including as a mother of Jewish children. I feel deep sadness and regret for the hurt I have caused."
(AP)
12.18.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/xtxhnn34y YNet]
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Australia: December 21 - Special day to remember victims massacred at Bondi Beach.
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared December 21 as a special day to commemorate the victims of the Hanukkah massacre at Bondi Beach in Sydney.
Reuters |12.18.25
[https://www.ynetnews.com/article/8rhghkx17 YNet]
Australia declares day in honor of Bondi Beach attack victims, announces gun buyback scheme.
Albanese went on to say that intelligence has confirmed that the Bondi Beach attack was ISIS-inspired.
By Reuters. December 19, 2025.
The Federal and New South Wales governments have declared Sunday, December 21, as a day of reflection in order to honor the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, announced Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese in a press conference early Friday.
Albanese went on to say that intelligence has confirmed that the Bondi Beach attack was ISIS-inspired.
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880754 JPost]
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Fifty years of Islamic rule can’t erase 2,600 years of Jewish-Iranian friendship.
Today, the friendship between Jews and ordinary Iranians is alive and well, with Iranians taking to social media to express support for Israel after the Bondi attack. We must stand with them in turn.
By Alex Winston. December 18, 2025.
It was the middle of the night when the regime snuck the statue away. The sculpted figure was of the ancient Sasanian King Shapur I, and the statue, which briefly stood at Tehran’s Enghelab Square, depicted the Roman Emperor Valerian kneeling before him. Now it is gone after just a matter of weeks.
The statue was part of a broader attempt by the regime to revive a form of Persian nationalism aimed at soothing public discontent and redirecting attention away from the country’s other internal problems.
But it was called out by the Iranian people for the propaganda farce that it was. Because the Iranian people are well aware of their own history.
Iranian history with the Jews.
It is a history that dates back over 2,500 years, and, for the majority of that time, the Iranians have enjoyed a special friendship with the Jews. Indeed, it is unlikely there is any other example of two civilizations enjoying such a long and prosperous relationship.
Jews have lived in the region since the Assyrian conquest of the northern Kingdom of Exile, but the friendship was founded two centuries later.
After the destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and the Babylonian Exile, it was the Persian King Cyrus the Great who, in 537 BCE, permitted the Jews to return to their ancestral homeland. Additionally, Cyrus granted the Jewish community freedom of worship, a policy shown in the Cyrus Cylinder, in contrast to the religious restrictions imposed by the earlier Assyrian and Babylonian empires. Cyrus is the only non-Jewish monarch in the Jewish Tanakh (scriptures) to be named God’s “anointed one” (mashiach).
Since then, over the course of 2,500 years, there has been a continual Jewish presence in Iran.
Of course, there have been bad times, too. The story of Purim took place entirely in the Persian Empire, and there was also the case of the Mashhad Jews. The Allahdad, literally meaning “God’s Justice,” was a violent anti-Jewish outbreak in 1839 in Mashhad, in Iran’s northeast, then under Qajar rule.
Muslim mobs targeted the city’s Jewish population, killing many and coercing others into conversion to Islam. In the aftermath, most Mashhadi Jews were forced into a life of secrecy, outwardly conforming to Islamic practices while privately maintaining Jewish observance.
Iran is more than the regime that rules it
It is essential to distinguish between Iran and the regime that has ruled it since 1979. The Islamic Republic is not the inheritor of Persian civilization; it is merely a brief interruption in a long chain of comradeship. Its hostility toward Jews and toward Israel is not rooted in Iran’s ancient history, culture, or collective memory. Rather, it stems from an Islamist extremist ideology enforced on the people.
Today, in 2025, the friendship between Jews and ordinary Iranians is alive and well.
It was telling that at the Bondi Beach vigil and hanukkiah lighting in London, one of the most prominent flags seen in the crowd was the Lion and Sun flag, the symbol of imperial Iran. It is a flag that has appeared time and time again at marches or gatherings showing support for Israel or Jewish communities post-October 7.
Many Iranians took to social media after the Bondi attack to express their support with the hashtag #IraniansStandWithIsrael following the terror attack in Australia, which left 15 people murdered.
“Light triumphs over darkness, and the hearts of we Iranians across the world are with you, my Jewish friend,” one social media user wrote, with similar messages of support coming from around the world.
“This regime is the root cause of global terror and instability,” one user wrote on X, as others called for the implementation of the Cyrus Accords and for Israel to destroy the regime.One Iranian within the country reached out to this writer with the message, “As Iranians, we understand the meaning and cost of terrorism all too well.
For that reason, many of us feel a genuine sense of closeness and solidarity with Jewish communities around the world, and especially with the people and state of Israel. Today has been a difficult day for us as well, much like it has been for you.”
The mullahs who rule Iran seem to be under the impression that 46 years of Islamic rule can wipe out the memories of two millennia of endearment. They seem to think they can sweep away a special bond, the like of which has not been seen anywhere else in the world. But they are mistaken. Iranians know full well their own history. Even if they can’t show it publicly for fear of the Islamic Republic, they live it and breathe it every day.
And in the spirit of that friendship, as Iranians continue to suffer under the regime – and as they continue to be locked away for the smallest of infractions, such as calling for basic freedoms – we must stand with them.
We must call for the release of Bita Shafiei and her mother, Maryam, who have been in the hands of the security apparatus for over a month, and are reportedly being held in solitary confinement and under torture.
We must call for the release of the 40 innocent people who turned out last week for the memorial ceremony of human rights lawyer Khosrow Alikordi, who died under suspicious circumstances just hours after a visit from security forces.
We must call for the release from incarceration of:
Abolfazl Abri; Ali Adinehzadeh; Hasti Amiri; Javad Alikordi; Akbar Amini; Mohammadreza Babaei; Heydar Chahchamandi; Mohammadali Dehestani; Milad Fattah; Noura Haghi (Vahideh Haghparast); Hamed Hosseini; Javad Jalali; Mahmoud Khanali; Amir Khavari; Narges Mohammadi; Aliyeh Motalebzadeh; Tayyebeh Nazari; Pouran Nazemi; Sepideh Gholian; Hamed Rasoulkhani; Mehdi Rasoulkhani; Amin Vosoughinia; Hamed Zareh; Mohammad Zanganeh; Zahra (Raha) Sharifi
Regimes rise and fall. Statues are erected in the night and quietly removed by morning. But civilizations endure. The bond between Jews and Iranians was forged long before the Islamic Republic and will outlive it as well.
[https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-880699 JPost]
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PBS Coverage Ignores Islamic Connection in Australia Hanukkah Massacre.
Dec. 17, 2025 . Clay Waters.
On Sunday PBS acted like the good liberal news channel it is by whitewashing the obvious Islamic roots behind the massacre of Jews at an outdoor Hannukah party at Bondi Beach in Australia anti-Semitism to instead discuss wholly unrelated incidents in America, like the decade-old Charlottesville, ignoring that even more virulent anti-Semitism was on display in every march in Australia and even in America for over two years now.
[https://mrctv.org/node/596980 MRC]
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ISGAP @ISGAP.
BREAKING NEWS: Heavily armed Australian forces just intercepted what appears to be a potential follow up attack in Sydney, Australia.
The plot appears to have been serious enough for the authorities to deliberately ram the suspects car off the road before they managed to get to Bondi.
Following @isgapinternational for the developing story!
[#sydney #australia #bondi]
Dec 18, 2025
[https://x.com/ISGAP/status/2001612957529313397 On X]
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Ben Shapiro denounces Tucker Carlson at Heritage, urges policing of conservative movement.
“A conservatism that treats Tucker Carlson as a thought leader is no conservatism,” Shapiro said.
By Assf Elia-Shalev/JTA.
December 18, 2025.
Ben Shapiro walked onto a Heritage Foundation stage Wednesday and used it to draw a line against Tucker Carlson and a strain of conservatism Shapiro warned is drifting toward conspiracy theories and antisemitism.
For a talk that lasted about an hour, Shapiro, one of the most prominent Jewish voices on the American right, denounced Carlson by name, arguing that the former Fox News host no longer belongs inside the conservative movement and urging the institution hosting him to enforce what he called “ideological border control.”
[https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-880644 JPost]
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The Second Wave.
Seven ISIS Terrorists Remanded in Custody After Plotting Second Massacre at Bondi Beach
Australian authorities have successfully dismantled a seven member ISIS cell that was in the final stages of planning a second deadly attack on Bondi Beach, seizing IED components and firearms during a massive city wide crackdown.
Eliana Fleming
Dec. 18, 2025
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/bondi-beach-isis-terror-plot JFeed]
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The End of the NYPD?
NYC in Danger: Zohran Mamdani Moves to Replace Police With Social Workers in Radical Safety Overhaul.
New York City is on the verge of a radical transformation as the City Council advances a $1 billion plan to replace police officers with social workers, a move that has many residents fearing a total collapse of law and order.
Eliana Fleming
Dec 18, 2025.
[https://www.jfeed.com/news-world/nyc-police-social-workers-safety JFeed]
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Hate on Campus.
Brazen Antisemitism: Michigan State Chabad Targeted in Brazen Back to Back Attacks
A serial vandal has struck the Michigan State Chabad center on back-to-back nights, moving from an attempted break-in to painting swastikas and threatening messages on the front door.
Eliana Fleming
Dec 18, 2025
[https://www.jfeed.com/antisemitism/michigan-state-chabad-antisemitic-attacks JFeed]
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Footage from heart of Jenin: Undercover units arrest terrorists and seize weapons.
Security forces continue operations in Jenin as part of a large-scale operation in northern Samaria, which began last night.
Israel National News.
Dec 18, 2025, 8:25 PM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419575 INN]
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French court jails nanny for poisoning Jewish couple, rejects antisemitism charge.
A French court sentences a nanny to 2.5 years for poisoning a Jewish couple’s drinks but rejects antisemitism as a motive.
Israel National News.
Dec 19, 2025, 2:13 AM (GMT+2)
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419589 INN]
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Trump:
'Netanyahu would like to see me, we’ll probably meet in Florida'.
Trump says a meeting with PM Netanyahu is likely next week in Florida, though the White House has not yet confirmed plans.
Israel National News.
Dec 19, 2025, 12:08 AM
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419587 INN]
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The victims of the Sydney Hanukkah Massacre
Two terrorists murdered 15 people at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia. The names of 14 of them have been publicized.
Israel National News.
Published: Dec 16, 2025, 11:28 AM (GMT+2)
Updated: 12/18/2025, 6:39:00 PM
[Sydney, Hanukkah Massacre]
Fifteen people were murdered, and dozens were wounded when two terrorists opened fire Sunday evening at Bondi Beach in Sydney during a Hanukkah gathering attended by members of the Jewish community. The victims ranged in age from a young child to elderly attendees.
So far, the names of 14 victims have been publicized:
Adam Smyth.
Adam Smyth, a 50-year-old father of four, was murdered as he walked with his wife, Katrina, on Bondi Beach. His family remembered him as a sports fan. He was particularly fond of Liverpool FC, the Sydney Swans, and the Manly Sea Eagles. “We will forever cherish the time we have had with him. Adam was a generous and kind person who will be dearly missed and is forever irreplaceable,” his family said.
Boris Tetleroyd.
Boris Tetleroyd, a 68-year-old immigrant from the former Soviet Union. He spent almost 30 years working with Transport for NSW. Boris was described as a beloved husband and father who loved nature and would often share photos of the animals he encountered on his hikes. Tetleroyd was attending the Hanukkah event at Bodi with his son Yakov. Boris was murdered, and Yakov was wounded. Another one of his children posted on social media following the attack, searching for him. The following day, the family learned that he had been murdered.
Boris and Sofia Gurman.
Boris, 69, and Sofia, 69, a Russian-Jewish couple living in Bondi, were the first two victims of the attack. Boris and Sofia noticed the terrorist, Sajid Akram, emerging with a rifle from a car with an Islamic State flag draped across the windshield. Boris initially managed to push the terrorist to the ground and take his rifle. However, Akram then shot the two at close range before proceeding to murder 13 others.
Edith Brutman.
Edith Brutman was among those murdered in the attack. According to 7NEWS, she attended the Hanukkah by the Sea event together with Tibor Weitzen and his wife, and was seated next to Weitzen when the shooting began. Both Brutman and Weitzen were killed during the assault.
Matilda.
Matilda, aged 10, was the youngest victim identified. She was a former student at Sydney’s Harmony Russian School. Teachers and family members described her as a bright and joyful child whose life was cut short while she was celebrating Hanukkah at the event.
Marika Pogany.
Marika Pogany, 82, was identified as one of the victims on Monday night. Friends expressed shock and grief on social media, sharing photos of her from the Bondi Beach gathering and mourning the loss of a close friend.
Tibor Weitzen.
Tibor Weitzen, 78, was a member of Bondi’s Chabad Synagogue. He attended the event with his wife and grandchildren and was reportedly killed while attempting to shield his wife from gunfire.
Peter Meagher.
Peter Meagher, a retired NSW Police detective sergeant, was killed while working as a photographer at the event. After more than three decades in the police force, he had pursued photography following his retirement. His family described him as a devoted husband, brother, and uncle.
Rabbi Eli Schlanger.
Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 41, a British-born Chabad rabbi known as the “Bondi Rabbi,” was killed in the attack. A father of five, he was a prominent and widely loved community figure who regularly organized and promoted Jewish events in Sydney.
Dan Elkayam.
Dan Elkayam, a 27-year-old French national, was also among the dead. He had been living in Australia for two years and was described by friends as a warm and positive presence. His death was confirmed by French officials following the attack.
Alex Kleytman.
Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was shot and killed during the shooting. According to his wife, he was struck in the back as chaos erupted and people attempted to flee or take cover.
Rabbi Yaakov Levitan.
Rabbi Yaakov Levitan served as secretary of the Sydney Beth Din. Friends remembered him as a kind and peaceful individual, noting that his final message to one friend ended with the words, “peace and love.”
Reuven Morrison.
Reuven Morrison, a member of the Chabad community who divided his time between Melbourne and Sydney, was killed after attempting to confront one of the gunmen. According to his family, he tried to stop the attacker before being fatally shot by a second assailant.
[https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/419427 INN]
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Tucson Jewish community targeted with antisemitic graffiti after Bondi Beach massacre.
According to the statement, flyers posted around the Community Center included “highly derogatory and concerning content targeting both the Jewish community and law enforcement.”
(Conversation JCRC Bay Area @SFJCRC Anti-Israel activists vandalized property along Market St. in San Francisco with pro-Hamas graffiti).
By Leo Feierberg Better. December 19, 2025.
Tucson Jewish Community Center (Tucson J) staff discovered “hateful” antisemitic materials posted near the building, Jewish Philanthropies of Southern Arizona (JPSA) announced on Monday.
According to the statement, flyers posted around the Community Center included “highly derogatory and concerning content targeting both the Jewish community and law enforcement.."
[https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-880693 JPost]
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