COMMENTARY
A Hospital’s Shocking Treatment of a Bondi Beach Survivor
Seth Mandel
January 28, 2026

Every so often a story emerges from within an ongoing crisis and flips a switch in people’s heads that says: This cannot go on; something has got to change. The world is seeing a shocking increase in anti-Jewish discrimination in public settings, but what happened to Rosalia Shikhverg ought to be a moment that changes the world’s understanding of what is happening. Shikhverg suffered gunshot wounds to the head at the Bondi Beach massacre last month. According to an investigation by Sky News, she was rushed to the hospital—where staff allegedly cut her admissions wristband off and put a new one, with a new name, on her. Rosalia Shikhverg was now “Karen Jones.” The new name was printed on her discharge forms and her medication….The truth—which Shikhverg understood immediately—was that the name change was done to protect her: from hospital staff and medical professionals who could not be trusted to treat a Jewish victim of terrorism because she was a Jewish victim of terrorism. READ MORE