Overview
- Hundreds gathered in Ashdod on Dec. 25 to lay to rest 27-year-old French national Dan Alkayim, killed in the Dec. 14 Bondi Beach shooting.
- Ashdod Mayor Yechiel Lasri eulogized Alkayim’s bravery and declared a citywide day of mourning in his honor.
- The attack targeted a Hanukkah celebration and left 15 dead, with alleged gunman Sajid Akram fatally shot by police.
- Surviving suspect Naveed Akram, 24, remains in custody on more than 50 charges, including 15 counts of murder and a terrorism offense.
- Alkayim was a Paris-raised IT engineer living in Sydney on an NBCUniversal sponsorship who was honored at a Sydney memorial before repatriation, while police reported officers among the wounded including one who lost sight in an eye.