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Sunday, December 14, 2025
Knesset lawmaker pauses committee meeting to check on son at Australia shooting site
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Following reports of a mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, Knesset National Security Committee chairman MK Zvika Fogel (Otzma Yehudit) pauses a meeting of the panel to call his son, who is taking part in a Hanukkah event there.
Video posted by Israel National News journalist Hezki Baruch shows an anxious-looking Fogel on the phone with his son. According to Baruch, Fogel’s son and two of the son’s children were attending a Hanukkah event at the beach, which reports suggest may have been the target of the attack.
יו"ר הועדת לביטחון לאומי, ח"כ צביקה פוגל עוצר את הדיונים בועדה בעקבות ירי במסיבת חנוכה בסידני כדי לשוחח עם בנו שמשתתף במסיבה יחד עם שני נכדיו של ח"כ פוגל pic.twitter.com/5xnWknby9L
— חזקי ברוך (@HezkeiB) December 14, 2025
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