SYDNEY: People of all faiths will overcome “evil” together, Israel’s President Isaac Herzog said on Monday as he laid a wreath at Sydney’s Bondi Beach to commemorate victims of a shooting that killed 15 people at a Jewish festival.
The Israeli head of state paid homage under rain and grey skies to those killed in the December 14 attack as he embarked on a tightly secured, four-day visit aimed at consoling Australia’s Jewish community.
“The bonds between good people of all faiths and all nations will continue to hold strong in the face of terror, violence and hatred,” he said in a ceremony outside the beachside Bondi Pavilion.
“We shall overcome this evil together.”
Herzog said he laid two stones from Jerusalem at Bondi Beach “in sacred memory of the victims.”
