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Jad Nakhle and his family opened a Lebanese restaurant in the heart of Cronulla seven years ago.
They called it
Yalla Sawa - Arabic for ‘come together’ - and Jad says that’s what the community has done since day one.
“We said, ‘Look, it s all going to be about sharing, it s all going to be about people getting together’,” he tells SBS News.
“As soon as we opened the doors, we were busy. And we were busy for a long time. A lot of the locals love this place. They tell a lot of people about it. Like, if you go to Cronulla, you ve got to go to Yalla Sawa’.”