Prime Minister Anthony Albanese announces Australia’s largest gun buyback since Port Arthur, targeting illegal and newly banned firearms after the antisemitic Bondi terror attack.

<p>Australian police said that seven men detained in Sydney's southwest on Thursday had ideological connections to the two terrorists who carried out the Hanukkah attack in Bondi Beach, killing 15 people.</p><p>"We don't have definitive links between the individuals who committed these atrocities on Sunday and this yesterday apart from potential commonality in some thinking, but no associations at this stage," New South Wales state Police Deputy Commissioner Dave Hudson told <i>ABC Radio</i>.</p>

<i>Fox News</i> reports the suspected shooter connected to the Brown University mass shooting was found dead of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Hasidic singer Shulem Lemmer met his cousin, top US attorney Alan Dershowitz, at a Hanukkah event at the White House. The two burst out in a Hasidic song.

Trump says a meeting with PM Netanyahu is likely next week in Florida, though the White House has not yet confirmed plans.

<p>A fire broke out on Thursday evening at a synagogue in Tzfat. Four firefighting teams were dispatched to the scene and identified flames inside the synagogue building.</p><p>The firefighters entered the structure, worked to extinguish the blaze, conducted searches, and managed to rescue several holy books, which were handed over to worshippers unharmed.</p><p>The teams quickly brought the fire under control, and no injuries were reported.</p>

<p>Following Hapoel Tel Aviv’s loss against Panathinaikos B.C. in Greece on Thursday night, a local fan shoved the club’s owner, Ofer Yanai, cursed him, and said: Go away, dirty Jew,” while pointing to the kippah on his head.</p><p>The Greek club’s management immediately removed the attacker from the stadium and revoked his season ticket for life.</p>

A French court sentences a nanny to 2.5 years for poisoning a Jewish couple’s drinks but rejects antisemitism as a motive.