At Bondi Pavilion on Tuesday, around 700 people gathered for a vigil marking the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks in Israel. Speakers including NSW opposition leader Kellie Sloane, federal Liberal senator Dave Sharma, and Israeli ambassador Hillel Newman linked these events to the recent Bondi terrorist attack that killed 15 people. Ambassador Newman emphasized the connection between verbal violence against Jews and physical acts like the Bondi shooting, while 11-year-old Ben Carasso, whose friend lost his father at a festival in Israel, spoke about how Israeli children have been affected by ongoing conflict.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-10-07,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Why this leaning score
The model judged this article politically coded and scored it +0.65, but 2 quote(s) could not be found in the article and the other 3 are attributed speech rather than the article's own narration, so the score is not published.
Written under an earlier scoring contract, which gave a paragraph
rather than checkable quotes. Re-analysing this article replaces it.
Leaning score withheld for article 61639: no verified evidence · logged 2026-10-07
The coarse wail of the shofar - a ceremonial ram’s horn trumpet - echoed across the Bondi Pavilion courtyard at 6.29am on Tuesday as around 700 people gathered to mark the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks on Israel.
asserted
people → echo → Israel
NSW opposition leader Kellie Sloane, federal Liberal senator Dave Sharma and Israel’s ambassador to Australia Hillel Newman spoke at the event, metres away from the site of December’s Bondi terrorist attack.
asserted
Sloane → speak → attack
They all drew a link between the events of October 7, 2023, when thousands of militants crossed from Gaza to assault Israel, and the Bondi attack, in which 15 people were killed by gunmen at a Jewish festival.
asserted
people → draw → festival
“There is a direct line between the shooting at Nova and the shooting at Bondi,” said Israel’s ambassador to Australia, Hillel Newman.
asserted
ambassador → be → Australia
“We have witnessed verbal violence and bullying which led to vandalism, arson and culminated in the murder of 15 people right here …
asserted
which → witness → people
Among the speakers was 11-year-old Ben Carasso, the grandson of a Holocaust survivor who became a child influencer on social media after the father of his friend went missing from the Nova festival in Israel and was later found to have been killed.
asserted
father → become → Israel
“I’m very glad we began the connection in Bondi with the Israel children and the Jewish children, they’ve both suffered since October 7,” said Carasso, who lives in Tel Aviv but has travelled widely among the global Jewish diaspora.
asserted
who → ’m → diaspora
“We don’t have a normal childhood for three years now.
asserted
We → have → years
I want to get to speak for the children.
asserted
I → want → children
We didn’t get a chance to grow up.
asserted
We → get → chance
“Since October 7, I saw what the children of Israel were going through.
asserted
children → see → Israel
My friend lost his father.
asserted
friend → lose → father
They didn’t know where he was for months, he was at the Nova festival.
asserted
he → know → festival
“Israeli children are forced to learn what to do in a rocket attack.
asserted
children → force → attack
It’s a side that is not talked about.
asserted
that → ’ → ?
For three years we have had this, and I want the world to know.”
asserted
world → have → this
Sloane told those at the vigil that vision of the October 7 attacks had moved her deeply.
asserted
vision → tell → her
“Little boys running from a shelter after their father was attacked, a woman on the back of a ute, kids slaughtered.
asserted
kids → run → ute
It was brutality at its worst,” she said.
asserted
she → say → worst
“What was done to them deserved to be seen, and it can never been denied.”
asserted
it → do → them
Sloane said people who chose today to protest Israel’s action in Gaza should be ashamed of themselves.
asserted
who → say → themselves
“On this day, can I just say ‘shame on you’ to the people that have held protests.”
asserted
that → say → protests
Pro-Palestine vigils have been organised in the Sydney CBD and Wollongong today.
asserted
vigils → organise → CBD
Sharma called the Hamas attacks on October 7 “an organised and systematic massacre of Jews … a pogrom,” and said it had created the conditions for the Bondi attack.
“It was the terrible tragic result of a culture that took root in Australia after the Hamas terror attack and the war that followed,” Sharma said.
asserted
Sharma → call → attack
“This was a culture where vilification was permitted to go unchecked, where antisemitism was excused, or tolerated, or met with moral equivocation and where Australian leaders went missing in action and lost their moral compass.
asserted
leaders → permit → compass
”
While the Jewish community in Australia is united in grief by the October 7 atrocities, there are diverse views on the way forward.
asserted
community → unite → way
Alex Ryvchin of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry said the event had exposed antisemitism in sections of the community.
asserted
event → say → community
“We saw it in Lakemba and the Opera House,” he said.
asserted
he → see → Lakemba
“We saw it among religious fanatics, the far-left and the resurgent neo-Nazis.
asserted
We → see → fanatics
It made everything clear at once.
asserted
everything → make → ?
It exposed the rank hypocrisy of human-rights advocates who lined up to explain why rape and murder were resistance in certain cases.”
asserted
rape → expose → cases
The progressive Jewish Council of Australia used the date to call for sanctions against Israel.
asserted
Council → use → Israel
“Every life lost is a whole universe, both Palestinian and Israeli,” said the group’s executive director Sarah Schwartz.
asserted
director → lose → ?
“But as Jews, we refuse to allow our identities to be weaponised to enable further killing and the silencing of advocacy for Palestinian rights.”
asserted
identities → refuse → rights
Another commemoration event is to be held in an undisclosed location in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Tuesday night.
asserted
event → hold → night
Over 1200 people were killed and over 250 taken captive on October 7, 2023, when militants crossed the Israeli border from Gaza to attack on a Jewish holiday.
asserted
militants → kill → holiday
Israel responded with attacks on Gaza that are estimated to have killed over 70,000 people.
asserted
that → respond → people
The Aporia
