Australia’s Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion came to a close, wrapping up more than 60 days of public hearings aimed at exploring the surge in antisemitism in the country in the wake of the deadly Bondi Beach massacre.
The commission was established in January following the attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi on December 14, 2025, which killed 15 people.
The commission on Wednesday finished its work after hearing 340 witnesses and receiving more than 20,000 submissions, with Rabbi Yehoram Ulman, Chabad Director of Bondi, who lost his son-in-law Rabbi Eli Schlanger in the attack, the last to testify. Schlanger’s then-two-month-old son was injured in the attack.
“My prayer is that when my grandson is old enough to understand what happened to his father, he will also be able to understand what Australia chose to do about it and that he would be proud of the choice we made,” Ulman said.
The Bondi Beach mass shooting was the first fatal attack against Jews in Australia and the country’s deadliest mass shooting since 1996.
