What we know about the victims of Bondi terror attack so far

“Her memory will remain in our hearts, and we honour her life and the time she spent as part of our school family,” the post read.

Dan Elkayam

French president Emmanuel Macron said French national Dan Elkayam had been killed. In his late 20s, Elkayam had been in Australia for several years. He was working as an IT analyst for NBC Universal, his LinkedIn profile shows.

A Jewish man, Elkayam had been among those celebrating Hanukkah at the beach, France’s foreign affairs minister said.

He was a soccer fan, and had joined a football club in Rockdale. Members of the Rockdale Ilinden Football Club said he was “an extremely talented and popular figure” on the Premier League 1 team.

“Our deepest and sincerest condolences to Dan’s family, friends and all that knew him,” the club posted. “He will be missed.”

Elkayam’s Instagram page showed him regularly enjoying Sydney’s beaches after work, and travelling throughout the country.

Eli Schlanger

Also among the dead is Eli Schlanger, 41, an assistant rabbi at Chabad of Bondi, husband and father of five, the youngest a baby boy.

The British-born Schlanger danced with joy and defiance in a video he posted to X during Chanukah last year, telling his followers that it was the best way to fight antisemitism.

Schlanger’s cousin, Rabbi Zalman Lewis, told Jewish News that Schlanger’s death made no sense.

“How can a joyful rabbi, who went to a beach to spread happiness and light, to make the world a better place, have his life ended in this way?” Lewis said.

“We can only respond by doing what Eli would have wanted, what he dedicated his life to – doing more mitzvot (good deeds) and to keep spreading positive energy. To keep generating light. To keep focusing on goodness and hope, in every interaction every day.

“Let’s flood the world with goodness because, as Jews, we know, as difficult as it might seem, that light and goodwill always win.”

Schlanger was an organiser of the Chanukah by the Sea event. His death was confirmed by Chabad, a global Jewish movement whose Bondi Beach chapter hosted the event.

“For 18 years, since his marriage to wife Chaya, he has served as a rabbi and chaplain in the Bondi community,” Chabad said in an X post.

A moving video showed Rabbi Yehoram Ulman at morning prayers, talking about the attack to the community. He was the father-in-law of Schlanger. The dead are among his congregants. Reaching for tissues to dry his tears, Ulman, the head of Sydney Beth Din and Chabad Bondi, said many people wanted to “bring Jews down, destroy us, make us despondent, lose hope.”

But that is not what those who died, like Rabbi Schlanger, would’ve wanted. “We have to step up now. They’re looking to us.” Now is the time to unite, and forget petty things, he said.

Alex Kleytman

Alex Kleytman, a Holocaust survivor and native of Ukraine, had attended the event with his wife, Chabad reported Monday morning.

Speaking outside St Vincent’s Hospital, wife Larissa Kleytman told the media: “I have no husband. I don’t know where is his body. Nobody can give me any answer.”

“He died shielding her from the gunman’s bullets. In addition to his wife, he leaves behind two children and 11 grandchildren,” Chabad wrote on X.

Reuven Morrison

Morrison, a member of the Chabad community, was a businessman who came from the Soviet Union before he “discovered his Jewish identity in Sydney”, Chabad posted.

He divided his time between Sydney, where he conducted business, and Melbourne, where he lived with his wife and daughter, the group added.

40-year-old man

A 40-year-old man was taken to Royal Prince Alfred Hospital on Sunday but died at the hospital, NSW Police said in a statement on Monday.

Dozens injured, remain in hospital

Forty-two patients were transported or presented to several Sydney hospitals. Two of these patients have since died. NSW Health provided the following update as at 8am:

• Twelve patients are in a stable condition at Prince of Wales Hospital
• One patient is critical and two are stable at St George Hospital
• One patient is stable at Sutherland Hospital
• One patient is critical at Sydney Eye Hospital
• Three patients are critical, five patients are stable, and two patients were treated and discharged at St Vincent’s Hospital
• Three patients are critical but stable, one patient is critical condition, one patient is stable, and one is yet to be assessed at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. One patient at this hospital has passed away
• One patient is critical and two patients are stable at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick. Sadly, one patient at this hospital has passed away
• One patient is critical but stable and one is stable at Royal North Shore Hospital
• Two patients are in a stable condition at Liverpool Hospital