Bondi Beach shooting: Footballer Dan Elkayam among victims named after 16 killed

Dan Elkayam, who died in the Bondi Beach terror attack.

A 10-year-old girl, a rabbi who had a 2-month-old child, a Holocaust survivor, citizens of France and Israel and a young police officer are the first known victims of the mass shooting at Bondi Beach in Sydney’s east which has killed at least 16 people and injured 42 others.

On Sunday afternoon, two men fired dozens of bullets at Chanukah By the Sea, an event to mark the Jewish Hanukkah festival.

A young girl is among the victims of the terror attack.

The 12-year-old girl was injured but died overnight of her wounds, co-chief executive of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry Alex Ryvchin said.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was killed during the attack. Photo / Instagram

He told US network CNN that a friend had “lost his 12-year-old daughter, who succumbed to her wounds in hospital”.

“I know everyone who was there. That’s an event where I attend with my family every single year,” he said of Chanukah by the Sea.

Another victim has been named as Rabbi Eli Schlanger, 40, from the Chabad of Bondi, while police sources confirmed that a young police officer had also died in the shooting on Sunday evening.

Just hours before the event, Schlanger was posting about the event to his Facebook page.

“BOOK BOOK BOOK for your free donut,” he wrote.

Friend Eliezer Tewel posted about Schlanger’s death.

“He was just doing his job. Showing up. Being the constant, reliable presence for his community,” he wrote in a tribute post.

“This is about my friend who is gone. It hurts. It’s confusing.”

Schlanger was born in the UK and studied in France.

He had four children, with his most recent born just two months ago.

‘I have no husband’

Larisa Kleytman told Nine News her husband, Alex Kleytman, had been killed in the shooting.

She said she heard a “boom” and then he fell to the ground.

“I have no husband. I don’t know where is his body. Nobody can give me any answer.”

Kleytman was born in Ukraine and was a Holocaust survivor.

“He came on Bondi Beach to celebrate Hanukkah, for us it was always a very, very good celebration, for many, many years,” Kleytman told The Australian.

A Sydney police officer has also reportedly been killed but details are scant.

Israel, French citizens killed

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said an Israeli citizen was killed in the attack and another injured.

“The Israeli Embassy in Australia and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ Department for Israelis in Distress are in contact with the family of the wounded individual, who is hospitalised at a local hospital,” the ministry said.

“The Israeli Consul in Australia is expected to arrive at the hospital to accompany the wounded Israeli and assist the family.”

The French Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, Jean-Noël Barrot, said Frenchman Dan Elkayam has died.

“We mourn with his family and loved ones, with the grieving Jewish community and the Australian people.

“This despicable act is yet another tragic manifestation of a revolting surge of antisemitic hatred that we must thwart.”

In an update on Sunday night, police said those who were injured included a child with an arm injury, a 62-year-old woman who was shot in her leg and a man with a bullet graze to the head.

One of the injured was human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky, who said he also survived the October 7 attacks in southern Israel.

Ostrovsky spoke to Sky News with a bloodied face.

Arsen Ostrovsky, a human rights lawyer who lived in Israel until recently, was left bleeding heavily after the beach shootings.

“I’ve lived in Israel the last 13 years, I came here just two weeks ago to work with the Jewish community,” Ostrovsky told Sky News.

“We’ve lived through worse; we are going to get through this and we are going to get the bastards who did this.

“I saw children falling to the floor … there was blood gushing everywhere.”

Two police officers were also injured during the attack.

One video circulating online shows a young woman being treated by paramedics.

Another man was shot in the back, with a photo of his injury posted by the Australian Jewish Association.

Another man injured was at the festival working for the Executive Council of Australian Jewry.

NSW Police Commissioner Mal Lanyon said the 29 people taken to hospital had a “range” of injuries.

“The condition of those officers and the other transported are serious, but there is a range of conditions,” he said.

“We’ve had 29 others transported and we know people are still turning up there.”

Of the dead, one is believed to be a shooter.

The second alleged shooter is in a critical condition.

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