Google Trends briefly showed searches for the Bondi Beach attacker’s name coming from Israel before the attack. Data disappeared shortly after.

I was checking Google Trends and noticed something odd: searches for the Bondi Beach attacker’s name appeared to originate from Israel before December 10th, prior to the attack. As far as I can tell, these were the only recorded searches of that name before the incident.

Minutes after I took the first screenshot, the search history for that term was no longer available on Google Trends. I’m not claiming this proves anything on its own, but it does indicate that at least one user in Israel searched that name ahead of the attack, which raises questions about how and why that information was known early.