French Jew Dan Elkayam, 27, identified as one of Sydney attack victims

Armed police work at the scene after a deadly terror shooting at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)
Armed police work at the scene after a deadly terror shooting at a Hanukkah event at Bondi Beach in Sydney on December 14, 2025. (DAVID GRAY / AFP)

Dan Elkayam, a young French Jewish man, is named as one of the 11 people killed in today’s shooting at a Hanukkah event in Sydney, Australia.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot writes on X that Paris feels “immense sadness” at the news, and is mourning “with his family and loved ones, with the Jewish community and the bereaved Australian people.”

The Le Parisien newspaper reports that Elkayam was 27 and had moved to Australia around a year ago to work as an engineer.

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