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A Week After Bondi Beach Massacare: The Dark Deal

It Starts with a Harassed Bakery and Ends with Murders on the Beach; How Antisemitism Was Enabled from Above

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Nadav Eyal
Dec 22, 2025
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Ed Halmagyi’s bakery, Avner’s, became world-famous after the Bondi Beach attack. This story was widely reported: a day after, Halmagyi decided to close Avner’s. The message he left on the door was quoted everywhere:

“In the wake of the pogrom at Bondi one thing has become clear - it is no longer possible to make outwardly, publicly, proudly Jewish places…

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