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Ahmed Al-Ahmed at SBS office in Sydney

Credit: Dennis Fang, SBS

It's been almost three months since the Jewish community gathered to celebrate Chanukah at Sydney’s Bondi beach, and 15 people were killed in Australia's worse Terror attack. Images of 43-year-old Syrian-Australian father-of-two Ahmed Al- Ahmed tackling and disarming one of the gunmen, went viral around the world. In the run up to Harmony Week, Ahmed joined the SBS Hebrew and Arabic teams to talk about his journey from his childhood in Syria to his ongoing recovery, and share a powerful message on what it truly means to be Australian in a time of crisis.



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