Isaac Herzog meets Bondi survivors during Sydney visit

Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, told members of the Jewish community 'when one Jew is hurt, all Jews feel their pain' as he began a four-day visit to Australia to speak with survivors of the Bondi terror attack and the victims’ families. He arrived in Sydney on Monday, laid a wreath at the site alongside the NSW premier, Chris Minns, and with his wife, Michal Herzog, placed two stones from Jerusalem at a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion.

Herzog said placing stones on graves in the Jewish tradition represented 'the endurance of memory, the weight of loss and the unbreakable bond between the living and those we have lost'. At Bondi he paid tribute to '15 innocent souls who gathered to celebrate Hanukah, the festival of light, [and] were massacred in cold blood', recalling 'the youngest victim, sweet Mathilda, [who] was just 10 years old' and 87-year-old Alex Kleytman, who 'survived the extermination of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust only to be murdered for being a Jew on the beaches of Sydney'.

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