Overview
- Rabbi Yaakov Levitan succumbed to wounds sustained in the Bondi Beach terror attack on the first night of Chanukah.
- He served as Secretary of the Sydney Beth Din in an administrative and operational role supporting rabbinical proceedings and communal functions.
- He was an administrator at the BINA Library and Educational Resource Centre overseeing daily operations, budgeting, marketing, and BINA Sofer Services.
- He founded tapNgive, a Sydney-based initiative providing tap-and-pay donation kiosk solutions for charities and nonprofits.
- Originally from Johannesburg, he earned a Bachelor of Commerce in Business Management from the University of South Africa and pursued rabbinic studies at the Mayanot Institute in Jerusalem.