Police and local media reports said the shooting began while some people were attending a Hanukkah party on the beach. At least 29 people were hospitalized.

An attack on a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach in Sydney has drawn attention to Australia’s distinctive Jewish community.

Following last year’s chaotic Christmas gathering, described as a “mass urinal”, thousands of tourists and locals flocked to a new Sydney beach on Christmas Day.

The country has long looked warily at the cycle of gun violence in the United States, where meaningful changes in policy have ...