Rabbi Eli Schlanger, one of the 16 victims of the terrorist attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach, had written an impassioned letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese just weeks before his death, pleading with the leader to stand against rising antisemitism.
The 41-year-old father of five, who served as the assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi, was gunned down during the 'Chanukah by the Sea' event, a tragedy made all the more poignant by his prescient, and ultimately unheeded, warning.
