A preferred rabbi who had just lately welcomed a brand new son simply two months in the past has been named as one of many first victims in Sunday’s lethal terrorist assault in Sydney which focused worshippers at a Hanukkah occasion.
Rabbi Eli Schlanger had been one of many 2,000 in attendance on the occasion on Bondi Seaside to mark the primary evening of Hanukkah when two terrorists opened hearth on the group, killing at the least 11 individuals and wounding 29 others.
Schlanger, the assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, had shared information of his new son in an Oct. 12 submit on Fb.
Simply weeks in the past, he had written a letter to the Australian Prime Minister begging him to help Israel.
“As a rabbi in Sydney, I urge you to not betray the Jewish individuals and never God himself,” Schlanger wrote to Anthony Albanese, a left-winger extensively seen as essential of Israel, in accordance with Australian outlet Channel 12.
“Jews have been torn from their land many times by leaders who at the moment are remembered with contempt within the pages of historical past. You have got a chance to face on the aspect of justice,” Schlanger wrote.
“I congratulate you prematurely for the braveness to do what is true and stand agency in opposition to this act of heresy,” he wrote.
