A well-liked 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 Seashore to mark the primary night time of Hanukkah when two terrorists opened fireplace on the gang, killing a minimum of 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 put up 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 important of Israel, based on Australian outlet Channel 12.
“Jews have been torn from their land repeatedly by leaders who are actually remembered with contempt within the pages of historical past. You’ve gotten a possibility to face on the aspect of justice,” Schlanger wrote.
“I congratulate you upfront for the braveness to do what is correct and stand agency towards this act of heresy,” he wrote.
