Terror attack in Golders Green stabs two Jewish men, police investigate

Shomrim volunteers described “pandemonium on the streets” as they rushed to help police after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, a scene that again put community security under strain in north-west London. Officers were called to Highfield Avenue at 11:16hrs on Wednesday 29 April 2026, and the Metropolitan Police later said the attack was being treated as a terrorist incident.

Local officers and armed officers attended alongside the London Ambulance Service, while Counter Terrorism Policing London took over the investigation. By the evening of 29 April, police said the inquiry remained ongoing, leaving residents and volunteers in the area to absorb another violent episode in a neighborhood already on edge.

The stabbings came against the backdrop of a series of antisemitic incidents that have unsettled Golders Green and surrounding streets. On 23 March 2026, four Hatzola ambulances in Golders Green were set on fire in what police described as an antisemitic arson attack. Two men arrested in connection with that case were later released on bail, and on 3 April three people were charged over the fire.

Police are also investigating a suspected arson attack on a memorial wall on Limes Avenue after a fire was reported on 27 April. Taken together, the attacks have sharpened concerns among Jewish residents about whether the protections around daily life, from volunteer patrols to formal policing, are keeping pace with the threat.

The response has been visibly heavier. Police increased armed patrols in the area, and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said extra officers had been deployed to prevent further attacks. That deployment reflects both the scale of the concern and the limits of reassurance after repeated incidents in the same part of Barnet.

For Jewish volunteers, the pattern is stark: a community ambulance fleet was targeted, a memorial wall was set alight, and now two men have been stabbed in a street attack classified as terrorism. In Golders Green, the question is no longer only how to respond after violence erupts, but how to sustain trust, readiness and ordinary life when the threats keep returning.