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Bondi Beach tragedy : In praise of male courage

The heroes of Bondi Beach should be celebrated in an era of ‘toxic masculinity’.

Ahmed Al Ahmed thought he was going to die but went ahead regardless to tackle one of the Bondi beach attackers.

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Jemima Kelly

Sunday, Dec 14, was a day of horrific male brutality: a father and son

, including a 10-year-old girl and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. But it was also a day of astonishing male courage.

Two men (one of them the Holocaust survivor)

; another was killed while trying to disarm the attackers before they began shooting.