{"id":3313,"date":"2025-12-17T07:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3313"},"modified":"2025-12-17T07:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T07:29:07","slug":"bondi-beach-attack-casts-shadow-on-israels-hanukkah-celebrations-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmupgrades.com\/?p=3313","title":{"rendered":"Bondi Beach attack casts shadow on Israel’s Hanukkah celebrations : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"


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\n Australian Jews and others hold a vigil in Tel Aviv for the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, on Sunday, Dec 14.
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TEL AVIV, Israel \u2014 A rabbi with a blowtorch climbs onto a scissor lift and is hoisted up to a giant Hanukkah menorah.<\/p>\n

“Are you ready!?’ he asks the children gathered below.<\/p>\n

“Yes!” they shout in unison.<\/p>\n

Rabbi Shaul Reizes uses the blowtorch to light the first, rightmost candle and leads the children and a crowd of grownups assembled behind them at Habima Square in Tel Aviv in singing the Hanukkah blessings.<\/p>\n

It was at a ceremony like this one, thousands of miles away in Australia, where two gunmen opened fire on Sunday, killing at least 16 people<\/a>, including a 10-year-old girl and a Holocaust survivor. The tragedy is casting a heavy shadow over the Jewish festival of lights in Israel, where people of all ages had been looking forward to celebrating \u2014 especially this year, as a ceasefire in Gaza has held since October and all but one of the hostages<\/a> taken by Hamas-led militants in the attack of Oct. 7, 2023, have been returned. <\/p>\n