Volunteers from the Jewish emergency service, Hatzolah, were among the first responders to arrive at the scene of the recent terror attack in Bondi.

Rabbi Yanky Super, serving as a medic during the Hanukkah event on Sunday, found himself under fire during the attack.

Currently hospitalized, Rabbi Super narrowly escaped a fatal outcome, thanks to a walkie-talkie-style radio that deflected a potentially deadly bullet.

He sustained gunshot wounds to his chest and back, leaving his body embedded with bullet fragments.

Rabbi Super is now receiving treatment in the intensive care unit at Royal North Shore Hospital as he begins his recovery journey.

But he cannot believe he is alive and neither can the man who rushed to his aid.

“God saved his life through his speaker mic,” Rabbi Mendy Litzman told 9News.

“He actually got shot [and] that would be for sure a kill shot.”

Litzman, who is also a Hatzolah emergency first responder, was helping Super when he saw his friend, rabbi Eli Schlanger, shot on the ground.

Litzman tried to save Schlanger, but he died.

“One of the hardest parts of the whole event was seeing my friend like that and having to leave and move on to the next person,” Litzman said.

Schlanger is one of the 15 people killed when the Akram father and son pair opened fire on the Jewish community, who were celebrating the first day of Hanukkah at the beach.

Litzman, 44, described the scenes as a “warzone” as he and other volunteers turned a section of the popular tourist destination into a makeshift emergency ward.

As that emergency unfolded on land, just 100 metres away, another crisis played out in the water.

Bondi lifeguard Rory Davey was sheltering on the sand behind a beach buggy with around 30 people when he noticed two men struggling in the water.

“I just see two men going under the water and can’t get back in, so I just had to grab my board and go out while shots were still going on,” Davey told 9News.

Lifeguard Daniel McLaughlin praised the work of his team as well as strangers for coming together during the dark and chaotic time.

“There was no victim or patient on the floor who didn’t have people trying their absolute best [to help them],” he told 9News.

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