UK police charge man over stabbing of two Jewish men in London

An Orthodox Jewish man walks past security personnel patrolling the street near the scene where a man was arrested on Wednesday following a stabbing incident in which two Jewish men were wounded in the Golders Green area, which is home to a large Jewish population, in London, Britain, Apr 30, 2026. REUTERS

UK Metropolitan Police said on Friday that it has charged a 45-year-old man following a Counter Terrorism Policing investigation into an attack during which two men were stabbed in Golders Green.

Essa Suleiman has been charged with two counts of attempted murder and one count of possession of a bladed article in a public place in relation to the attack, the police said.

Britain on Thursday raised its national terrorism threat level to "severe" from "substantial," after the antisemitic stabbing attack in north London.

Two Jewish men were stabbed in north London on Wednesday by an attacker who ran down a street targeting Jews in what police said was a suspected terrorist incident.

Police said the two victims, aged 76 and 34, were both in a stable condition in hospital, and officers, some of whom the suspect also attacked, had arrested a 45-year-old man after stopping him with a Taser stun gun.

The latest in a spate of UK antisemitic attacks has drawn demands for urgent action from Jewish community leaders in London, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israeli president amid concerns about the safety of Britain's 290,000 Jews.