{"id":417091,"date":"2026-04-29T19:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417091\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:46:09","slug":"the-jewish-security-volunteers-first-on-scene-of-golders-green-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/417091\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jewish security volunteers first on scene of Golders Green attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We got a phone call to the hotline saying that there&#8217;s a man stabbing people and we sent our members to the scene.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was not yet known at the time on Wednesday morning, but a volunteer of the Jewish security group Shomrim was dispatching their members to what would later be formally declared a terrorist incident by the Metropolitan Police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Two Jewish men, aged 34 and 76, were stabbed while in Golders Green, north London. Both are in a stable condition, but the attacks came after a spate of arson attacks against Jewish property in London in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Shomrim carries out civilian security patrols through Jewish communities in north London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It has 40 volunteers who are on call 24\/7, and who actively work with local people to prevent crime and increase safety by working with police and other agencies, according to its website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We were first on scene, and we apprehended him together with the police,&#8221; Ben Grossnass from the organisation adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;We got a phone call to the hotline saying that there&#8217;s a man stabbing people and we sent&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-417091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}