Israeli man dead after stabbing attack.

AN Israeli has been stabbed to death by a gang of men who jumped out of a car and cornered him outside a general store in Sydney’s east.

NSW Jewish Board of Deputies CEO Vic Alhadeff today said witnesses to the brutal attack in Bondi had told him the 36-year-old victim was an Israeli national.

Police were called to the shop at the intersection of Glenayr Avenue and Beach Road at Bondi Beach about 9.45pm (AEST) yesterday. Outside the store, a man with multiple stab wounds was slumped on the footpath. He was treated at the scene and taken to St Vincents Hospital for emergency surgery but died several hours later.

Mr Alhadeff said members of the Jewish community called him last night with details of the incident. “Word came back to us last night from people in the area who saw it and found out that the man was an Israeli,” he told AAP. “There was a car load of people who stopped and they got out and they assaulted him pretty brutally and some of them were hitting him with a pole or something and there was multiple stabs.”

He said the incident did appear to be related to the conflict in Lebanon.