Israel’s president, Isaac Herzog, has told members of the Jewish community “when one Jew is hurt, all Jews feel their pain” as he begins a four-day visit to Australia to speak with survivors of the Bondi terror attack and the victims’ families.
Herzog, who arrived in Sydney on Monday morning, laid a wreath at the site of the antisemitic attack alongside the NSW premier, Chris Minns.
He also placed two stones from Jerusalem at a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion, along with his wife, Michal Herzog. The president 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”.
“These stones … will remain here at Bondi for eternity in sacred memory of the victims and as a reminder that the bonds between good people of all faiths and all nations will continue to hold strong in the face of terror, viol
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