‘Our community suffered our own Oct. 7,’ says father-in-law of rabbi killed in Bondi attack

17 December 2025, 2:46 am

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Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, father-in-law of Rabbi Eli Schlanger, a victim in the Bondi Beach mass shooting, speaks at his funeral at a synagogue in Bondi on December 17, 2025, in Sydney, Australia. (AP Photo/Mark Baker, Pool)

Addressing the funeral for Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the speakers compares the deadly terror attack targeting a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to the Hamas-led invasion of southern Israel in October 2023.

“Our community suffered our own October 7. That’s what this is,” Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, Schlanger’s father-in-law, tells mourners at Chabad of Bondi Synagogue.

“So much pain, so much tragedy,” adds Ulman, noting the 15 people killed and dozens wounded in the attack.

Speaking about his son-in-law Schlanger, Ulman says, “it’s the closest ones [to God] who are taken.”