Prime Minister stood “shoulder-to-shoulder” with worshipers at Melbourne synagogue

ABC NEWS (Australia)

A board member at the Adass Israel synagogue in Melbourne has welcomed Anthony Albanese’s visit after last week's arson attack. The prime minister has promised to provide whatever funding is needed to restore the synagogue.

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00:00He was quite emotional, which was special.

00:04There was two parts to yesterday's visit.

00:06There was walking through the synagogue where it was quite somber and he was very respectful

00:10and met with the chief rabbi who was inside the synagogue at the time yesterday and met

00:15with him.

00:16And then afterwards we went to the president's house, which was a couple of minutes away

00:20and sat down around the table and had quite a good meeting where he promised support and

00:25told us that as a leader of the country he's there to help us and to help all Australians

00:29to really keep and create what we've had.

00:33It's important that Australia stays the way it was and you play cricket out in the garden

00:37and you have barbecues with your neighbor.

00:39That's what we want.

00:40That's what we're used to.

00:41We were very grateful that he came to our synagogue, had a walk through and stood shoulder

00:45to shoulder.

00:46It was very important to see the leader of the country standing together with us and

00:52showing the rest of Australia, the rest of the world, this is not how we behave.

00:55This is not what we do in Australia.

00:58And it was really quite amazing and very warm that he was there.

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