Six months on from Bondi terrorist attack

“Every morning I wake up and think of Reuven and all the others who were taken from us.”

Bondi terror attack survivor Mimi Lebovits was standing near the petting zoo and speaking to her friend Laeh Morrison, the wife of hero Reuven Morrison, when gunmen began shooting at the Chanukah by the Sea celebration at Bondi Beach on December 14, 2025.

Six months later, she told The AJN the terror attack feels like yesterday.

“We were chatting away, and Reuven came towards us and saw my husband, gave a big smile – we’re good friends – and shook his hand, and that was the last smile that Reuven ever had,” she recalled.

“After that I heard a shot, and I immediately pushed my husband to the ground, and we jumped on the ground, and the shots were continuous … I was petrified and sang the Shema and tehillim and every prayer that I knew off by heart.