For Sheina Gutnick, Bondi holds both treasured memories and torment. The place where her parents met, where she spent happy childhood summer days, is today, also the place where her father died defending his people. “Bondi holds many complicated and conflicting feelings for me,” Gutnick told the opening day of public hearings of the royal commission on antisemitism and social cohesion. Gutnick’s father, 62-year-old Reuven Morrison, was one of 15 people shot and killed at Bondi on December 14, allegedly by two Isis-inspired gunmen in an antisemitic terror attack on Jews celebrating Hanukah at a beachside event. Morrison was killed after he threw bricks at the gunmen. “It was somewhere where my parents had started their history together,” Gutnick, the commission’s first witness, said. “Somewhere I had spent many days in my childhood, I had beautiful memories there with my family, I had spent a lot of time there with my children during school holidays.…