Michael Wegier was in Sydney week before Bondi Beach attack, Zionist CST meeting with Chabad Rabbi

‘Like a brother to me’: Sydney rabbi pays tribute to British-born rabbi killed in Bondi attack

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/bondi-beach-victims-rabbi-eli-schlanger-b2885141.html

Sydney’s Newtown synagogue leader Rabbi Eli Feldman has paid tribute to British-born rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed in the Bondi Beach shooting on Sunday December 14.

Schlanger, 41, served as an assistant rabbi at Chabad, the Jewish cultural group that hosted the Chanukah by the Sea event at Archer Park. He grew up in Temple Fortune, north London, and is a father of five, according to Jewish News.

Speaking to media on Tuesday, Rabbi Feldman described Schlanger as “like a brother to me”.
“I knew him for 25 years. I studied together with him when we were teenagers,” he said.

“ He's got a widow, he's got children who don't have a father today,” adding, “What he would say right now is add in light.”
Avi Shlaim says he has 'proof of Zionist involvement' in 1950s attack on Iraqi Jews

British-Israeli historian claims in new memoir that Mossad carried out bombings to drive Jews out of Iraq and hasten their transfer to Israel

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlaim-proof-israel-zionist-involvement-iraq-jews-attacks

British-Israeli historian Avi Shlaim has claimed in his new book to have uncovered "undeniable proof" of Israeli involvement in attacks on Jewish communities in Iraq in the early 1950s.

Shlaim's autobiography, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew, which details his childhood as an Iraqi Jew and subsequent exile to Israel, was published last week.

According to a review of the memoir printed on Saturday in the Spectator magazine, Shlaim unveils in his book "undeniable proof of Zionist involvement in the terrorist attacks" which prompted a mass exodus of Jews from Iraq between 1950 and 1951.

The historian concluded, after extensive personal research, that while a grenade assault on the Masuda Shemtov synagogue in Baghdad - which killed four Jews in January 1951 - was carried out by an Arab, other bombings were allegedly the work of Mossad, Israel's spy agency.

These were carried out to quicken the transfer of 110,000 Jews in Iraq to the then-newly created state of Israel, he said.

Middle East Eye has reached out to Shlaim for comment.

Over 800,000 Jews either left or were expelled from countries in the Middle East and North Africa between 1948 and the early 1980s. The majority of them settled in Israel.

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