This is an unholy special update.

Much of the Jewish world woke up this morning to the very grim news of a deadly terror attack on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia,

the target the Jewish community during a Hanukkah celebration.

As we record, just after noon London time,

there are conflicting reports of the death toll,

some saying it's 12, some saying 11,

with some 29 people at least injured.

The shooting has been called a terrorist attack by Australia's Prime Minister, Anthony

Albanese. As well as me here in London and Yonit in Tel Aviv, we are joined by Nomi Kaltman,

who's in Australia, who unholy listeners will remember speaking with us in the summer as we did

our tour of Jewish communities.

Nomi is a journalist, a lawyer, a Rabanit, is published widely in Arets, The Guardian and others,

and gave us a sense of life in Australia.

When we spoke, you said actually the Jews have a pretty good time living in this country and today

a much, much grimmer outlook. As we record, Nomi, just fill us in on what we know right now.

So it's the first night of Hanukkah and Hanukkah in Australia is in the summer. So everyone

is finishing up work, school finished last Friday, everyone's

sort of relaxed and in beach mode. And all across Australia, people go to Hanukkah parties,

especially on the weekend when it's good weather. So there was a massive Hanukkah party,

which they hold every year on Bondi Beach, one of the most iconic and beautiful beaches

in Australia. And based on the

footage that I saw online, it's quite shocking. It looks like two gunmen came and deliberately

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