Australian police have detained seven men during anti-terror raids in Sydney on Thursday as the country lays to rest the youngest victim of the deadly Bondi Beach attack.

As two gunmen opened fire on hundreds celebrating Hanukkah on Sydney’s Bondi Beach, 14-year-old Chaya Dadon’s mind was clear. Across from where she had taken cover from the gunshots under a bench, Dadon saw two children stranded out in the open,

Matilda, described by her school teachers as “our little ray of sunshine,” was enjoying a petting zoo at the festivities on Sunday just before she was killed along with 14 other people.

For Australia’s tiny Jewish population, Bondi Beach was a refuge within a vast country that offered sanctuary to families fleeing a seething hate that killed six million of their kind within the lifetime of some of their oldest members.

A man credited with saving lives for wrestling a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi Beach received a cheque for more than A$2.5 million ($1.65 million) on Friday,

Police intercepted two vehicles in a Sydney suburb based on "information received that a violent act was possibly being planned."

Thousands of people have returned to Australia’s Bondi Beach in the first full day of opening since a mass shooting killed 15 people