Flowers and tributes at a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion, honoring the victims of a mass shooting attack that killed 15 people at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 15, 2025. Photo / Getty Images
Flowers and tributes at a memorial outside the Bondi Pavilion, honoring the victims of a mass shooting attack that killed 15 people at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 15, 2025. Photo / Getty Images
Australia will hold the first funeral today for victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting, with mourners gathering to grieve slain rabbi Eli Schlanger.
The father of five, known as the “Bondi Rabbi”, will be remembered in a morning service at the Chabad of Bondi Synagogue, the Executive Council ofAustralian Jewry said.
Large crowds were expected, the group said in a statement to media.
Gunmen Sajid Akram and his son Naveed Akram opened fire on people thronging the famous Sydney beach for the Jewish festival of Hanukkah on Sunday evening, killing 15 people and wounding dozens more.
Schlanger served as a chaplain for Corrective Services New South Wales and a major hospital, according to a website of the Chabad movement, which represents a branch of Hasidic Jews and organised the Bondi event.
