Rabbi Yosef Eichenblatt spoke on Monday with Kan News, recounting how his 13?year?old daughter, Elia, survived the Bondi Beach massacre.

Rabbi Eichenblat described the terrifying moments she experienced: �At first she thought it was fireworks, then a security guard shouted, �Lie on the floor.� Afterwards she saw a woman bleeding heavily from her leg. At some point she lifted her head and saw a man with a weapon on the bridge. Bullets passed over her, and then she noticed someone wrest the weapon away from the terrorist.�

He slammed the Australian government, saying, �We’ve been asking the government to do something about antisemitism for two years. The situation keeps getting worse, and they do nothing.�

He also criticized the Australian police: �The police did nothing; they hid from the terrorists instead of shooting. My friend, an Israeli who was at the massacre, told them, �Shoot them. If you don�t do it, I will.��

Sara Vanunu, a JNF KKL Israel emissary in Australia, also spoke to Kan. �We were celebrating my son�s bar mitzvah, and his entire class was there. Suddenly gunfire began and lasted about five minutes. People ran and hid in an inner hall. Everyone was in a panic.�

Sara also spoke about the feelings of Jews in Australia following the shocking massacre and the rise in antisemitism: �People are afraid; they removed the mezuzot from their homes. Some parents were afraid to send their children to school. There is real fear, but I am proud to be Israeli and Jewish, and I don�t want to hide it. It is important to be strong.�

(YWN Israel Desk�Jerusalem)