Members of Australia's Jewish community have taken aim at the ABC after a giant menorah projected onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge was 'invisible' during the broadcaster's coverage of the New Year's Eve fireworks. 

More than 30 cultural leaders - including Australian singer Deborah Conway and award-winning documentary filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe - had campaigned for the menorah to be included after 15 people died at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach. 

But when the big moment finally came, Aussies were left puzzled when the menorah projection appeared to be missing from the ABC's broadcast.

'It's on the pylon - impossible to see and ABC did not show it at all,' one person said, with another quipping: 'It's the invisible menorah'. 

Speaking to Daily Mail on Friday, Mr Ben-Moshe said the ABC's coverage of the touching tribute could have been managed better. 

'It was a very touching moment... but I'm still left wondering why there was no camera turned on to get a tight shot of the menorah,' he said. 

Surely that would be the most obvious and appropriate thing to do?

'That's what that minute of silence was about. I don't think something hateful was at play here, but I am concerned that something unthoughtful was occurring.'

Mr Ben-Moshe said Australia's Jewish community deserved greater visibility into the planning of the world-famous fireworks display. 

An image of a menorah is projected onto the pylons of the Sydney Harbour Bridge on New Year's Eve to pay tribute to the victims of the Bondi Beach attack 

Award-winning filmmaker Danny Ben-Moshe said the projection should have been featured better during the coverage of the event by ABC

'Why wasn't any further consideration being given to something Jewish coming off the back of that?' he said. 

'I just think that would be a basic, appropriate thing, and it didn't happen. 

'Is it symptomatic of this kind of erasure of thinking about Jews and what's going on with Jews in this country - and I say that as a Jewish creative working in this space since October 7. 

'What I can tell you is, from the many Jews who I've interviewed and engaged with in my film for the last year, this is very much a feeling of Jewish voices being silenced and it's a slightly different, nefarious form of Jew-phobia.

'I think it's an opportunity missed. I don't think it was missed for malicious reasons, but that doesn't make it unproblematic.'

When asked about criticism of its coverage of the menorah projection, an ABC spokesperson described it as a 'powerful' tribute.

'The Bondi terrorist attack was a shocking and traumatic event for Australia and especially for the Jewish community,' the spokesperson told Daily Mail.