Days after the devastating attack on Bondi Beach during a Hanukkah candle-lighting celebration, Australia’s Jewish community is still in complete shock.
A local Jewish resident describes the tragedy as “our beach became a mass grave,” sharing how his grandparents — Holocaust survivors — fled to Australia believing it was the safest place on earth.

But the community’s fear had been building long before the attack.
Jewish leaders repeatedly warned government officials about escalating antisemitic threats, urging them to take the danger seriously.

“We told them something like this would happen,” he says.