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Australian Jewish community leader decries ‘horrific’ shooting
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAlex Ryvchin, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, tells Sky News that the Sydney shooting was at an event at Bondi Beach celebrating the Jewish festival of Hanukkah, which began at sundown.
“This is the Jewish community at its best coming together to mark a happy occasion. If we were targeted deliberately in this way, it’s something of a scale that none of us could have ever fathomed. It’s a horrific thing,” he says, adding his media adviser had been wounded in the attack.
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