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Rabbi Menachem Lazaroff spoke with NBC News' Tom Llamas about the condition of his brother, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, who was injured in the Bondi Beach Hanukkah mass shooting that killed 15 people and injured more than two dozen others.

The country saw its deadliest mass killing in nearly 30 years, with the massacre of 15 people this weekend during a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach.

For many, official promises to stamp out the "evil scourge" of antisemitism and consider further tightening gun control measures come too late.

Australia's prime minister said Monday that the suspects in the shooting at the Hanukkah event were "clearly" motivated by extremist ideology.

The dead range in age from 10 to 87, and include French, Slovak and Israeli citizens, officials said.

The 50-year-old suspect killed by authorities at the scene of the Bondi Beach attack had the legal right to possess a firearm, police said at a news conference in New South Wales.

New details are emerging about harrowing moments in the air near Venezuela between a JetBlue plane and a U.S. military aircraft. NBC News' Yamiche Alcindor has more.

Officials in Australia said father and son attackers killed at least 15 people in a shooting during a Jewish holiday celebration in Sydney. Video showed a bystander tackling one of the suspects. NBC News' Raf Sanchez has more.

The pro-democracy activist, 78, has pleaded not guilty to charges of sedition and colluding with foreign forces and faces life in prison if convicted.

The cousin of Ahmed al Ahmed, the man who disarmed the gunman at Australia's famous Bondi Beach, called his family member a hero. Mustafa said his cousin was hospitalized with one gunshot in the arm and another in the hand.