{"id":557102,"date":"2026-04-29T15:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557102\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T15:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T15:00:10","slug":"police-declare-terrorist-incident-after-two-jewish-men-stabbed-in-north-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/557102\/","title":{"rendered":"Police declare terrorist incident after two Jewish men stabbed in north London"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘We were first on scene,’ Shomrim security service volunteer sayspublished at 14:56 BST<\/p>\n

14:56 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Lucy Manning
Reporting from Golders Green<\/p>\n

\"TwoImage caption, <\/p>\n

Ben Grossnass (left) and Steven Bak from Shomrim<\/p>\n

Ben Grossnass from Shomrim, a Jewish security volunteer group, describes how the team responded:<\/p>\n

“We got a phone call to the hotline saying that there’s a man stabbing people and we sent our members to scene. We were first on scene, and we apprehended him together with the police.<\/p>\n

“He was outside the synagogue on Highfield Avenue, and he started stabbing someone outside there. <\/p>\n

“Then he went on down Golders Green Road, and he continued stabbing a visibly Jewish man and he went after him, pushed him over and started stabbing him repeatedly.”<\/p>\n

Just a few weeks ago there was an arson attack against Hatzola ambulances run by a Jewish medical charity, almost in the same place. They treated the injured this morning. Here’s Grossnass again:<\/p>\n

“It’s just one after another and we’re just crying out to the government to listen to us, feel the pain of the community. What’s going on? How much more can we take? We’re still in shock from the previous instance and this one happened.”<\/p>\n

Steven Bak, also from Shomrim, says everyone is shocked.<\/p>\n

“Our kids are in shock and fear and having a hard time at the moment, just going up, walking, going to the shops, going to synagogue. So we have to pull together like we normally do, and just try and continue life,” he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘We were first on scene,’ Shomrim security service volunteer sayspublished at 14:56 BST 14:56 BST Lucy ManningReporting from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":557103,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-557102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=557102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557102\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}