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Editor David Horovitz joins host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
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On Sunday evening, a radicalized father and son targeted the annual “Chanukah by the Sea” event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach and killed at least 15 people as they fired into the 1,000-strong crowd. Another 38 people were wounded, including two police officers. This morning, Australian officials confirmed they believe it was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State.” Horovitz updates us on this confirmation and other newly uncovered information about the gunmen’s plot.
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Newly discovered dashcam footage shows one of the examples of ordinary citizens willing to take on the attackers. Boris and Sofia Gurman confronted the father and son gunmen after the murderous pair parked their ISIS-flag-draped car. Both Gurmans were shot dead. We hear other moving stories of valor.
In the wake of the attack — the second-worst mass shooting in Australia’s history — Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is pushing for stricter gun control. Yesterday, Albanese rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that his government’s recognition of Palestinian statehood this year “pours fuel” on an “antisemitic fire.”
Horovitz explains how many Australian Jews feel government authorities have not done enough to stamp out hatred of Jews in Australia, which has allowed it to fester in the aftermath of October 7. Among his proposals, spelled out in an op-ed on The Times of Israel, is for a large-scale educational reboot to teach children tolerance alongside reading, writing and arithmetic.
Finally, we turn to the heartbreaking murder of Rob Reiner and his wife Michele. The Reiners’ son, Nick Reiner, was in police custody Monday for what investigators believe was his fatal stabbing of his parents at their Los Angeles home a day earlier, police said. Horovitz shares an until-now unpublished comment from a The Guardian interview with the director-actor dating from February 2024, in which Reiner stated, “Right now the world is shifting away from Israel – and that to me is very sad.”
Check out The Times of Israel’s ongoing liveblog for more updates.
For further reading:
Aim, fire, kill a Jew, reload… How to turn back the rising tide of murderous inhumanity
Australian officials: Bondi terror attack inspired by ISIS, bombs found in shooters’ car
Australian PM rejects Netanyahu’s linking of Palestine recognition to Bondi attack
Jewish donors help raise $1.3m for the Muslim man who disarmed a Bondi Beach attacker
Daughter of Holocaust survivor shot in attack: Antisemitism ‘allowed to fester’ in Australia
Rob Reiner’s son arrested as suspect in murder of parents at LA home
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