Australian police confirm Bondi Beach shooting
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Australia's prime minister said the suspects in the shooting at the Hanukkah event were “motivated by Islamic State ideology.” They had traveled to the Philippines prior to the attack, officials said.
Australia's PM says the attack - in which 15 people were killed - appears to have been "motivated by Islamic State ideology".
Originally from Melbourne, Australia, Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann is now the director of Chabad Columbus. Marked among the dead was Rabbi Eli Schlanger, the brother-in-law of one of Kaltmann's friends from when he studied at the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand.
Video appears to show a man tackling and disarming one of the gunmen, as officials say 11 people were killed in an attack "designed to target" Jewish people.