The Jewish security volunteers first on scene of Golders Green attack

A Jewish volunteer who helped apprehend the attacker in a stabbing in Golders Green has described a scene of "pandemonium on the streets". Two Jewish men, aged 34 and 76, were stabbed in north London on Wednesday, in what police have declared as a terrorist incident. Both men are in a stable condition. "It was horrific," Ben Grossnass, from Jewish security group Shomrim, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. The incident follows a spate of arson attacks against Jewish property in London in recent weeks which had already left communities fearing for their safety. Grossnass, who was among the first on the scene of Wednesday's incident, said the Jewish community had still been on edge following an arson attack on ambulances run by Hatzola, a Jewish medical charity, in March. "We haven't got over yet from the previous incident, and this has happened, and we've had small incidents in the past three, four weeks, also targeted at synagogues and community centres. "It's just one after another and we [are] just crying out to the government to listen to us, feel the pain of the community. What's going on?" he said. Yonathan Elkouby, another volunteer from Shromrim, which carries out civilian p

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