Bondi Beach shootings: Australia in mourning as first funerals held for attack victims
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Key Points:
- Mourners gathered in Sydney for the first funerals of victims from Australia's deadliest mass shooting in nearly 30 years, including Rabbi Eli Schlanger, who was killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.
- Rabbi Schlanger, known as the "Bondi Rabbi," was a beloved community leader and father of five, remembered for his dedication to Jewish life and support through the Chabad organization.
- Emotional tributes were made during the funeral service, with Schlanger’s father-in-law praising him as an exceptional husband, father, and son.
- Authorities revealed that the suspected father-and-son attackers were motivated by Islamic State ideology and likely received military-style training in the southern Philippines, an area known for Islamist extrem
