BONDI’S YOUNGEST ANGEL — Ten-year-old Matilda is being remembered as her shattered family shares the innocent, heartbreaking words of her six-year-old sister after the Hanukkah tragedy.
What was meant to be a night of light and togetherness has become a moment of unbearable loss — and the child’s words have stopped the nation in its tracks.
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Funeral held for 10-year-old Matilda, the youngest Bondi Beach victim

Matilda was among 15 people killed. More than 40 others were injured.

Hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney, Australia, on Thursday for the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda, who was the youngest victim of this weekend’s mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.

A tiny white coffin was slowly carried out of the synagogue as people sobbed, hugged, clutched teddy bears and held colorful, heart-shaped balloons.

The parents of 10-year-old Matilda leave the funeral at Chevra Kadisha Memorial Hall after the shooting at a Jewish Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach on Sunday, in Sydney, Australia, December 18, 2025.
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Mourners carry out the coffin of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach shooting attack, after the funeral service in Sydney, December 18, 2025.
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People arrive for the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach shooting attack, in Sydney, December 18, 2025.
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People arrive for the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda, who was killed in the December 14 Bondi Beach shooting attack, in Sydney, December 18, 2025.
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Matilda’s family moved from Ukraine to Australia “for a good life,” a rabbi told The Associated Press.

Matilda’s mother told ABC News that this photo of Matilda in a yellow dress with her face painted was taken on the day she was killed.

10-year-old Matilda was among the victims of the Bondi Beach shooting in Australia.
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In an online fundraiser, a teacher wrote that she knew Matilda — whose last name has not been released — as a “bright, joyful, and spirited child who brought light to everyone around her.”

A woman hugs Matilda’s grandmother during the funeral of 10-year-old Matilda at Chevra Kadisha Memorial Hall in Sydney, Australia, December 18, 2025.
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Matilda was among the 15 people killed when two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration this weekend in what officials called an antisemitic terror attack. More than 40 others were wounded.

One gunman was killed at the scene and the second is in custody and facing charges.