Benjamin Netanyahu unleashes Australia in a stunning width, while furious Israeli Prime Minister condemns the East -Melbourne Synagogue Arson Attack

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has sentenced ‘serious hate crimes’ in Australia after a arson attack on one Melbourne Synagogue and chaotic protests in a nearby Israeli restaurant.

The front of the East -Halleeuwse municipality was reportedly set on fire on Albert Street, in Oost -Melbourne, at 8 p.m. on Friday.

A short time later, demonstrators gathered outside the Miznon restaurant on the nearby Hardware Lane.

The police said that about 20 of them screamed ‘attacking songs’ and were dedicated to leave the area.

The Joint Counter Terrorism Team arrested a 34-year-old man from Tagongabbie, Western SydneyIn the Melbourne CBD at 8.15 pm on Saturday and accused him of the alleged arson attack at the synagogue.

Netanyahu joined the high -ranking Israeli officials to condemn the incidents and to demand the government to take ‘all necessary measures’ to bring the controller to court.

“Valle anti -Semitic attacks, accompanied by songs of” death to the IDF “and an attempt to harm a house of worship, are serious hate crimes that need to be uprooted in their source,” he said.

“Israel will remain at the Jewish community in Australia, and we call on the Australian government to take all the necessary measures to bring the rioters to court and to prevent such attacks in the future.”

The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned the arson attack in a Melbourne synagogue and a protest that broke out outside an Israeli restaurant

The arrest comes after the police had released an image of a man with whom they wanted to talk about the alleged arson attack

A short time later, demonstrators gathered outside the Israeli restaurant Miznon on the nearby Hardware Lane

The Victoria police claim that the man walked through parliamentary life before the front of the synagogue was brought on.

“The man is said to have cast a flammable liquid on the front door of the building and set fire to before he fled the stage on foot in a western direction along Albert Street,” said a spokesperson.

‘There were around 20 people in the synagogue at the time of the incident and participated in Shabbat.

“Everyone inside evacuated through the back of the building and was not injured.”

The man is confronted with accusations of reckless behavior that endangers life, reckless behavior that endangers serious injury, criminal damage caused by fire and has a controlled weapon.

The man will be fighting on Sunday before the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court.

The arrest comes after the police had released an image on Saturday of a man with whom they wanted to talk about the alleged arson attack.

The Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar said on X that there have been too many anti -Semitic attacks in Australia.

Minister of the Interior Tony Burke (photo) said he was constantly informed by Asio and the Australian federal police after the incidents in Melbourne

“The Australian government must do more to combat this poisonous disease,” he said.

In the meantime, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog also wrote on the social media platform that it was ‘unbearable’ that in 2025 they were still confronted with the hair -raising image of an attempt to burn Jews alive while they bathe and attack on Jewish companies.

“I condemn the general arson attack aimed at Jews in the historic and oldest synagogue of Melbourne on the Sabbath, and in an Israeli restaurant where people had started to enjoy a meal together,” he said.

Speaking outside the Melbourne synagogue on Sunday morning, Minister of the Interior Tony Burke defended legislative efforts to combat hateful speech and violence.

“This government has taken the strongest actions that Australia has ever taken to make hate symbols illegal, by making calls to violence and hate sowing to have serious criminal punishments,” he said.

“But the task to ensure that we eliminate anti -Semitism is from each of us.”

Mr Burke labeled the arson ‘disgusting and cowardly’ and said that people should be safe wherever they go in Australia.

We Import no hatred and violence from abroad to life in Australia, “he said.

“Hate has no place in Australia. Anti -Semitism has no place in Australia. The history of anti -Semitism around the world is something that starts with words rarely ends with words. ‘

Mr. Burke said that the Victorian police led the investigation into the two incidents.

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