Israel's ambassador to Australia has called for greater protection of Jewish people in Australia as dozens of people lined up on Tuesday at Sydney's Bondi Beach to pay tribute to the 15 victims and those wounded in the weekend's Hanukkah festival shootings.

Among the 34,000 donors to the GoFundMe campaign so far are several who said in notes that they were Jewish and explained why they donated unusual sums, in multiples of $18.

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

The suspects are a father, also killed, and his son, in the shooting at a Hanukkah event.

A troubling rise in antisemitic attacks and incidents in recent years have left some feeling anger after the kind of deadly attack they felt was sure to happen.

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

"The festival of Hanukkah begins this year for the Jewish community with a moment of profound sorrow," Archbishop Coakley wrote.

After the mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration in Sydney, Australia, Jewish New Yorkers said they felt the need to stand up for their community.

"Please say Psalms 20 & 21 for my son, Rabbi Leibel Lazaroff, who was shot in a terrorist attack at a Chanukah event he was running for Chabad of Bondi in Sydney, Australia," Yossi Lazaroff wrote Sunday. "The Chabad Rabbi he was working with Rabbi Eli Schlanger was killed. Praying for all the victims and their families."