An area rabbi, a Holocaust survivor and a 12-year-old woman are amongst these killed through the taking pictures assault Sunday on a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia.
Right here’s what we all know in regards to the 16 folks murdered within the assault, which befell at a well-liked beachside playground the place greater than 1,000 folks had congregated to have fun the primary evening of the vacation, in addition to about these injured.
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Eli Schlanger, rabbi and father of 5
Schlanger was the Chabad emissary in command of Chabad of Bondi, which had organized the occasion. He had grown up in England however moved to Sydney 18 years in the past, the place he was elevating his 5 kids along with his spouse Chaya. Their youngest was born simply two months in the past.
Along with main neighborhood occasions by means of Chabad of Bondi, Schlanger labored with Jewish prisoners in Australian prisons. “He flew throughout the state, to go go to totally different folks in jail, actually at his personal expense,” Mendy Litzman, a Sydney Jew who responded as a medic to the assault, informed the Jewish Telegraphic Company.
Final 12 months, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents in Australia, Schlanger posted a video of himself dancing and celebrating Hanukkah, selling lighting menorahs as “one of the best response to antisemitism.”
Two months earlier than his homicide, he revealed an open letter to Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese urging him to rescind his “act of betrayal” of the Jewish folks. The letter was revealed on Fb the identical day, Sept. 21, that Albanese introduced he would unilaterally acknowledge an impartial Palestinian state.
Alex Kleytman, Holocaust survivor initially from Ukraine
Kleytman had come to the Bondi Seaside Hanukkah celebration yearly for years, his spouse Larisa informed The Australian. She mentioned he was defending her when he was shot. The couple, married for six a long time, has two kids and 11 grandchildren.
The Australia reported that Kleytman was a Holocaust survivor who had handed World Battle II residing along with his household in Siberia.
Dan Elkayam, French immigrant to Australia
France’s overseas minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, introduced that Elkayam was among the many lifeless in Bondi Seaside. “It’s with immense unhappiness that we realized that our compatriot Dan Elkayam could be among the many victims of the vile terrorist assault that struck the Jewish households gathered on Bondi Seaside in Sydney on the primary day of Hanukkah,” he tweeted.
Elkayam moved final 12 months from the Paris space to Sydney, in line with his LinkedIn account, which mentioned he labored in IT for NBC Common in Sydney. He attended a highschool in suburban Paris operated by the World ORT group, a Jewish nonprofit targeted on vocational coaching.
12-year-old woman
Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Government Council of Australian Jewry, informed CNN {that a} pal “misplaced his 12-year-old daughter, who succumbed to her wounds in hospital.” The woman’s identify was not instantly launched.
Dozens of individuals had been injured
- Yossi Lazaroff, the Chabad rabbi at Texas A&M College, mentioned his son had been shot whereas working the occasion for Chabad of Bondi. “Please say Psalms 20 & 21 for my son, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, יהודה לייב בן מאניא who was shot in a terrorist assault at a Chanukah occasion he was working for Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, Australia,” he tweeted.
- Yaakov “Yanky” Tremendous, 24, was on obligation for Hatzalah on the occasion when he was shot within the again, Litzman mentioned. “He began screaming on his radio that he wants again up, he was shot. I heard it and I responded to the scene. I used to be the closest backup. I used to be one of many first medical folks on the scene,” Litzman mentioned. He added, “We simply went into motion and saved lots of lives, together with one in all our personal.”
