PERSON: Avi Yemini
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Avraham Shalom Yemini (born Avrohom Sholom Waks, 17 October 1985) is an Australian right-wing, political activist, commentator and internet personality from the Australian Jewish community. On 4 March 2018, Yemini was announced as a member of the Australian Liberty Alliance to run as a Victorian candidate for the upper house. He has written for The Times of Israel and appeared on numerous Australian television shows including The Project, Sunrise and the Today show. In 2009, Yemini founded a line of Israeli Defense Force (IDF) training gyms in Melbourne, Victoria. He is also the founder of “J-Safe,” a Jewish community group established in 2016 as a response to a growing number of home invasions in Caulfield and surrounds. Yemini works independently and creates video content online.
In January, 2017, Yemini raised over $140,000 for the Hakin family after a terror attack in Melbourne city. In addition, he ran a campaign in favour of a synagogue after it was rejected as a target of Islamic terrorism, despite a petition from the Jewish community of Bondi expressing concern to the synagogue’s Rabbi that Yemini was bringing fascists and neo-Nazis to join him in protest.
Yemini was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is one of 17 children. His family is Jewish. His father was Russian-Polish & his mother is Yemeni. Yemini attended Yeshivah College in East Saint Kilda until grade 8. When he was 13, Yemini became homeless as a result of rejecting his religious restrictions. After being in foster care for 6 months, he then moved between children’s crisis homes. He admits in his online videos that he struggled with drugs - particularly heroin - when he was 16 to 18.
As an adult Yemini moved to Israel, gained Israeli citizenship, and became a sharpshooter in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) serving with the Golani Brigade from 2005 - 2008. Most of his active duty was spent in the Gaza Strip.
At the end of 2008, Yemini returned to Australia where he did a personal training course and opened his first IDF gym.
In 2017 Avi Yemini told journalist John Safran in his investigation of extremists and extremism in Australia that “It’s lucky I was born a Jew. Otherwise I would be the biggest anti-Semite.”
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In January, 2017, Yemini raised over $140,000 for the Hakin family after a terror attack in Melbourne city. In addition, he ran a campaign in favour of a synagogue after it was rejected as a target of Islamic terrorism, despite a petition from the Jewish community of Bondi expressing concern to the synagogue’s Rabbi that Yemini was bringing fascists and neo-Nazis to join him in protest.
Yemini was born in Melbourne, Australia, and is one of 17 children. His family is Jewish. His father was Russian-Polish & his mother is Yemeni. Yemini attended Yeshivah College in East Saint Kilda until grade 8. When he was 13, Yemini became homeless as a result of rejecting his religious restrictions. After being in foster care for 6 months, he then moved between children’s crisis homes. He admits in his online videos that he struggled with drugs - particularly heroin - when he was 16 to 18.
As an adult Yemini moved to Israel, gained Israeli citizenship, and became a sharpshooter in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF) serving with the Golani Brigade from 2005 - 2008. Most of his active duty was spent in the Gaza Strip.
At the end of 2008, Yemini returned to Australia where he did a personal training course and opened his first IDF gym.
In 2017 Avi Yemini told journalist John Safran in his investigation of extremists and extremism in Australia that “It’s lucky I was born a Jew. Otherwise I would be the biggest anti-Semite.”
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