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.

A bystander identified as Ahmed el Ahmed is being hailed as a hero after video captured him disarming a gunman during a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach.

New South Wales Premier Chris Minns said the attack "was designed to target Sydney's Jewish community on the first day of Hanukkah."

Officials said 15 people are dead after gunmen targeted the attendees of a Jewish community event on Sunday in Australia's Bondi Beach. Another 40 people were hospitalized with injuries, including a child and two officers,