<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The identity of the unsung hero who ran in to help confront one of the </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi-shooting" rel="" target="" title="Bondi Beach"><span>Bondi Beach</span></a><span> shooters alongside </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-shooting-update-online-fundraiser-for-ahmed-al-ahmed-hits-over-two-million/00141be7-153b-4dce-9781-0d20e996c22d" rel="" target="" title="Ahmed al Ahmed"><span>Ahmed al Ahmed</span></a><span> has been revealed as 30-year-old Israeli Gefen Bitton.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>When shooting began on Sunday evening, Bitton and his friend fled. But when his friend turned around to look for him, he was nowhere to be seen.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He knew exactly what he was doing, he was just set on a mission to help others," another one of Bitton's friends, Matthew Volpatti, told 9News.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/bondi-beach-shooting-terror-attack-victims-named/8e866d73-4e45-4198-b28b-3661b4d8ad58"><strong><span>Final victim of Bondi attack named as local grandmother</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 30-year-old had sprinted towards danger, alongside Ahmed al-Ahmed, in an attempt to stop the attack.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Shortly after, Bitton's sister in </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/israel" rel="" target="" title="Israel"><span>Israel</span></a><span> called his friend and said that Bitton called her and said he had been shot.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>There was no information on his whereabouts, and his friends travelled to </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/bondi" rel="" target="" title="Bondi"><span>Bondi</span></a><span>, trying to find any information about whether he had survived the shooting.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/identity-of-mystery-man-who-stepped-in-to-disarm-bondi-shooter-revealed/8f3d20d1-eba8-42b4-acf1-fe981986b7a5" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He was eventually found at a hospital, already in surgery for the gunshot wounds he sustained in the attack.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/seven-men-arrested-in-liverpool-in-sydney-could-soon-be-released-police-say/dc40cceb-111a-4dd3-aa67-44e4984e8658"><strong><span>All seven men arrested in Sydney car stops released without charge</span></strong></a><strong><span></span></strong></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bitton was eventually identified after his father, who had flown from Israel, recognised him as the man in a red shirt seen in viral footage running in to help Ahmed al Ahmed, who famously disarmed one of the shooters.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Bitton was shot three times and remains in critical condition at St Vincent's Hospital after five rounds of surgery.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>His loved ones are raising money for his medical expenses.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He's got a long road to recovery," Volpatti said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"He's just a young man come from overseas to have a better life in Australia, and he's gonna need everyone's support."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/how-to-follow-9news-digital/29855bb1-ad3d-4c38-bc25-3cb52af1216f" target="_blank"><strong><em><span>DOWNLOAD THE 9NEWS APP</span></em></strong></a><strong><em><span>:</span></em></strong><span> </span><em><strong><span>Stay across all the latest in breaking news, sport, politics and the weather via our news app and get notifications sent straight to your smartphone. 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