Rabbi, Holocaust survivor, budding amateur footballer among victims

Sydney: A Holocaust survivor and a local rabbi were named on Monday among 15 people killed on Australia’s Bondi Beach.Local Jewish bodies named 41-year-old rabbi Eli Schlanger as one of the dead, mourning a community leader who helped to organise the gathering.

“Anyone who knew him knew that he was the very best of us,” said Alex Ryvchin from the executive council of Australian Jewry.

“This was a person who rose each day with a mission of doing good. Whatever good he could find, whatever kind deeds he could perform.” Schlanger had recently helped organise a memorial for the Chabad emissaries killed in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.The international Chabad organisation, which represents a branch of Hasidic Jews, said Holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman was also killed.

“A native of Ukraine and Holocaust survivor, he was attending his wife Larisa,” the body said in a statement. “He died shielding her from gunman’s bullets.”French President Emmanuel Macron led tributes to Dan Elkayam, a budding amateur footballer and French citizen building a new life in Sydney. “It is with profound sadness that I learned of the death of our compatriot Dan Elkayam in the anti-Semitic terrorist attack in Sydney,” he wrote on social media.

Sydney’s Rockdale Ilinden football club remembered Elkayam as an “extremely talented and popular figure amongst team mates”.The youngest victim was a 10-year-old girl who died in a children’s hospital, police said. The oldest was 87. Another 42 people were hospitalised, including two police officers. NYTThis story had continued from a page 23 story in the newspaper. For your reading convenience we have added it below.Holocaust survivor, rabbi among deadA Holocaust survivor and a local rabbi were named on Monday among the 15 people who were killed in a mass shooting.The international Chabad organisation said holocaust survivor Alex Kleytman, a native of Ukraine, died shielding his wife from the gunman’s bullets.