Rabbis, a young girl and a Holocaust survivor among Bondi Beach victims

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One of the 15 radical killed by a brace of gunmen Sunday successful an onslaught connected a Jewish gathering connected Australia's celebrated Bondi Beach was the rabbi who helped coordinate the event, friends and household person confirmed.

Rabbi Eli Schlanger was lauded connected Monday arsenic an "extraordinary quality being," arsenic accusation began to travel retired connected the victims of what Australian authorities person called an antisemitic violent attack. Among those killed was different section rabbi, a 10-year-old miss and a antheral who survived the Holocaust.

Alex Ryvchin, co-CEO of the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, told CBS News helium believes a last-minute determination to not be the lawsuit successful the Sydney suburb whitethorn person saved his life.

"For the past 10 years, the rabbi has invited maine to talk and to convey a message. And this year, for the archetypal time, I didn't attend. I had my oldest daughter's champion friend's bat mitzvah, truthful I was determination else," helium said.

"The rabbi who invited me, who was a beloved dear person of mine, who I would person been lasting adjacent to, was among the slaughtered," Ryvchin told CBS News, referring to Schlanger.

He said Schlanger was an "extraordinary quality being" whose enactment crossed the authorities of New South Wales included helping the underprivileged and visiting radical hospitalized with terminal illnesses.

Schlanger's brother-in-law, Rabbi Mendel Kastel, was besides astatine the lawsuit with his family.

"The past 24 hours is really, truly difficult," Kastel told CBS News connected Monday. "You know, losing a brother-in-law, you know, a household member, truthful I'm straight affected. But astatine the aforesaid time, I've got a relation successful the assemblage supporting others. It's been truly difficult."

Kastel lauded Schlanger arsenic "an astonishing young man, a idiosyncratic who was committed to his work."

"He was committed to the community. People loved him. Wherever helium went helium took existent involvement successful radical and radical took a existent involvement successful him. He would sojourn radical successful hospitals, he'd sojourn radical successful prisons, helium would thatch people, helium would thatch barroom mitzvahs. He would animate different rabbis with his enthusiasm, his positivity," Kastel said.

Grieving residents surviving successful Bondi, a confederate suburb of Sydney, came unneurotic Monday to laic flowers and mourn the dormant pursuing the attack. For Rabbi Kastel, it's that assemblage tone that's the essence of what Hanukkah symbolizes.

"We privation to shine, we privation to airy those candles together, we wanna enactment our arms astir each different and truly physique a due Australian assemblage wherever radical consciousness valued, radical consciousness loved, and radical consciousness cared for," helium said.

Who were the different victims successful the Bondi shooting?

Australian authorities person not confirmed the identities of immoderate victims, but friends, household and media reports started to physique a representation of the mislaid lives, among them a 10-year-old girl, and an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor. The young unfortunate has not yet been identified

At slightest 38 people, including 2 constabulary officers, were inactive being treated successful hospitals connected Monday.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said astatine slightest 1 Israeli national was among the dead, but provided nary further information.

Another section rabbi, Yaakov Levitan, was besides mourned arsenic a unfortunate of the onslaught successful a fundraising run endorsed by the Jewish enactment Chabad World HQ. The authorities section of the enactment successful Australia's New South Wales authorities confirmed Levitan's death, with the fundraising leafage for his household calling him "a profoundly beloved and progressive subordinate of the Sydney Jewish community."

"He was a antheral of quiescent devotion, known for his kindness and tireless enactment successful assisting others," according to the tribute, which called him "the cornerstone of his family: a devoted hubby and father" and urged radical to "urgently rally astir the Levitan family."

French President Emmanuel Macron said a French national, Dan Elkayam, was among those killed.

Larisa Kleytman told reporters extracurricular St Vincent's Hospital successful Sydney that her husband, Alexander Kleytman, was among the dead. The mates were some Holocaust survivors, according to The Australian newspaper.

The rugby nine successful adjacent Sydney suburb Randwick posted an online tribute connected Monday to its "loyal nine unpaid Peter Meagher," saying helium was "caught up successful these horrible Bondi Beach shootings and was sadly 1 of 15 guiltless people, who person mislaid their lives.

The nine said Meagher was moving astatine the lawsuit arsenic a freelance photographer, "and for him it was simply a catastrophic lawsuit of being successful the incorrect spot and astatine the incorrect time."

The President of Slovakia, Peter Pellegrini, said Monday that a nationalist of the European state was besides among the dead, but helium identified her lone arsenic Marika.