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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Ben Doherty

Candles burn across Australia as the nation hopes light will defeat the darkness

Rabbi Levi Wolff lights a menorah at Bondi to honour the victims of Sunday’s attack.
Rabbi Levi Wolff lights a menorah at Bondi to honour the victims of Sunday’s attack. Photograph: Hollie Adams/Reuters

In the fading light, they came back to Bondi, to light candles, to sing and to stand together, in solidarity and in defiance of the terror that had been visited upon their beach, their world.

Across Bondi, and Sydney, and Australia, people lit candles in solidarity with the Jewish community which suffered the worst antisemitic attack in the country’s history when two gunmen allegedly opened fire on a Hanukah celebration at Bondi Beach shortly after 6:40pm on Sunday evening.

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