Bondi Beach terror attack victim Rosalia Shikhverg said she doubts the ability of Western Sydney hospitals to keep Jewish Australian patients safe after her traumatic experience at Liverpool Hospital, where she was hospitalized after she was struck in the head by shrapnel during the attack.

Shikhverg was admitted to the hospital under her name and Jewish religion after the attack. The next day, before undergoing surgery, administrative staff informed her they were changing her identity. “They cut my band, and they put on a new band with the name ‘Karen Jones’—without any religion,” she said. “I was so scared and upset.”

Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Shikhverg said that the move was explained as a way to “protect her from the media,” but she believed that they were afraid of the staff in light of the incident of the two nurses at Bankstown Hospital who openly threatened to kill Jews in 2025. Both hospitals are in Western Sydney, which is known for its large Muslim population.

She said that the move left her terrified, and she cried throughout her hospital stay.

Her husband, Greg Shikhverg, added, “I questioned them, and I said, it can’t be. What do you mean by saying you’re protecting her from the media?”

“She couldn’t stop crying, and she said to me, ‘I can’t believe it. We’re in the hospital. I’m meant to be safe in here… and all of a sudden, for whatever reason, my name has been changed.’”

He added that no other Bondi Beach victims treated in hospitals in other suburbs had their names changed. “How come the other wounded people who were treated in different hospitals didn’t go through the same trauma?” he asked. “Why was this appropriate in the Western suburbs?”

Rosalia said that the experience has shaken her sense of safety in Australia, and she would think twice before admitting herself to a hospital.

“I spoke to other people, and they said, ‘What…now Jewish people have to be afraid to go to a public hospital?” she said.

“We’ve lived in Australia for almost half a century,” she said. “We love Australia, but it has changed dramatically in the last two or three years.”

On Monday, the Albanese government revoked the visa of Jewish-British-Israeli influencer Sammy Yahood, who warns of the dangers of radical Islam, on the claim that he “spreads hatred.”

(YWN Israel Desk—Jerusalem)