Israel President Isaac Herzog started a state visit Monday aimed at consoling grieving Australian Jews and improving bilateral relations by laying a wreath and stones at the site of an antisemitic attack in Sydney that left 15 dead.
Herzog met victims’ families and survivors of the attack on a Jewish festival at Bondi Beach on Dec. 14. Only one of the two alleged gunmen survived the following gunbattle with police. Naveed Akram has been charged with committing a terrorist act, murdering 15 people and wounding another 40 in Australia's worst mass shooting in 29 years.
