00:00We're going to start a bit thicker.
00:3014 months ago, the Jewish community of Sydney, Australia, gathered at Bondi Beach for a
00:59vigil when they woke up to news of six Israeli hostages who had been murdered in captivity.
01:09And it breaks my heart to think that the same community that gathered to mark the massacre
01:20of hostages just down the coast was targeted yesterday, Australia time today, for a brutal
01:29anti-Semitic attack at the exact same spot.
01:42We're here because this gathering is not only about us as a global Jewish family.
01:48It is intensely personal.
01:51We are all two degrees of separation at most from people who were there, people who were,
01:58God forbid, shot.
01:59And I'm sure for many of the people here from the Australian Jewish community who made Aliyah,
02:04they know personally names of people who were killed or injured.
02:09And their names have not made the news, like Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was there last year
02:14here at the Bondi Beach, vigil for the hostages standing in solidarity with us.
02:19At this moment of Hanukkah, we should be reminded of the light and we should be reminded, even
02:32at this difficult time, that our unity and the connection between the state of Israel and
02:39the diaspora will remain strong and our people will be united and we'll be here forever.
02:47Am Yisrael Kha.
02:48Am Yisrael Kha.
02:49Am Yisrael Kha.
02:50Amen.
02:51Amen.
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