Daily Briefing Dec. 15: Day 801 – Anguish in Australia after bloody terror attack at Hanukkah event |
Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.
Diaspora reporter Zev Stub and religion and archaeology reporter Rossella Tercatin join host Amanda Borschel-Dan for today’s episode.
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Two gunmen shot dead at least 15 people and wounded dozens more on Sunday at a Hanukkah event being held at Sydney’s iconic Bondi Beach to mark the first night of the Jewish holiday. There were about 1,000 Jews in attendance. We learn about the timeline of the attack and the identities of the murdered that were released by recording time.
Stub reports on what is known so far about the father-son attackers’ potential motives and a possible direction police are investigating. We learn how a bystander, filmed tackling and disarming a gunman during the terror attack, was named as........