A rabbi was killed in a shooting on a Sydney beach.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, an emissary of the Chabad religious movement in Sydney, has been identified as the victim of the attack on the Hanukkah holiday event. This was reported on December 14 by The Times of Israel (TOI) newspaper, citing a representative of the movement.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the Chabad movement's emissary in Sydney, has been identified as one of nine people killed in a mass shooting at a Hanukkah party on Bondi Beach.

Earlier in the day, Israeli President Yitzhak Herzog called on the Australian government to take measures to combat the wave of anti-Semitism after the shooting in Sydney. In turn, Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said he was shocked by what happened at the celebration of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah in Sydney, and called it the result of "rampant anti-Semitism" in Australia.

Red Sand: Mass murder took place on a beach in Sydney

At least ten people died as a result of the incident.

Unidentified men opened fire on people in the Sydney beach area on December 14. According to the portal news.com.au One of the armed criminals was shot dead, the second received medical attention. The third attacker surrendered to the police.

One of the eyewitnesses of the shooting in Sydney said that the sounds of gunfire lasted for several minutes. According to him, at first there were about six claps, after which the shooting continued for another two or three minutes – there were about 40-50 shots in total.

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