By Cordelia Hsu

SYDNEY, Dec 19 (Reuters) - As two gunmen opened fire on hundreds celebrating Hanukkah on ​Sydney’s Bondi Beach, 14-year-old Chaya Dadon’s mind was ​clear.

Across from where she had taken cover from the gunshots under a bench, Dadon saw two children ⁠stranded out in the open, beside their wounded parents.

"I knew in that moment, I felt like Hashem was sitting right next to me," she said in an interview with Reuters, using ​a Hebrew name for God. "He was whispering into my ear,'This is your ‍mission: go save those kids'."

The schoolgirl left ​the safety of her hiding spot, pulled the children away and jumped on top of them, covering their bodies........

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