Multiple Hatzolah ambulances erupted in flames in London’s Golders Green neighborhood early Monday morning. Footage showed at least four ambulances ablaze.
Surveillance footage from the scene captured three hooded suspects with gas canisters approaching the lot where the ambulances were parked and setting them ablaze. Additional footage captured the suspects fleeing the scene after carrying out their dastardly act.
Police and Shomrim have not yet identified the suspects, and an all-out effort is now underway to find them and bring them to justice.
Statement from Shomrim:
We strongly condemn the deliberate anti semitic attack on Hatzola ambulances in NW London. This was not only a criminal act of arson, but a targeted and deeply concerning incident affecting a vital emergency service serving the Jewish community.
Hatzola provides life-saving medical care to all who need it. An attack on these ambulances is an attack on the safety, wellbeing, and resilience of our community.
We are working closely with the police and all relevant authorities and assisting with the ongoing investigation.
There is no place for antisemitism or hate in our society. We stand united and will continue to support and protect our community.
We thank the police and fire brigade for their swift, professional response and for ensuring the safety of the public.
Golders Green Road (A502) will reopen shortly, while a small cordon will remain in place on Highfield Road NW11.
Whilst the community may have woken up to this and understandably feel scared, we urge the community to remain calm but vigilant and there is no reason why children should not return to schools as usual.
Police Superintendent Sarah Jackson, who leads policing in the local area said: “We know this incident will cause a great deal of community concern and officers remain on scene to carry out urgent enquiries. We are in the process of examining CCTV and are aware of online footage. We believe we are looking for three suspects at this early stage.
“There have been no arrests yet, and we would urge anyone with information to please contact us as soon as possible – you can do so anonymously if you wish.
“We will be engaging with faith leaders and carrying out additional patrols in the local area as we continue our investigation to provide reassurance and a highly visible presence.”
Anyone with information is asked to call police 101 quoting CAD415 of 23March or to remain anonymous call the independent charity Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.
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Unmitigated unspeakable disaster.
No Muslim has been involved in this incident. That’s for sure. And if you don’t believe me ask Mother Tucker. He’ll tell you.
Just for the record, I also condemn this antisemitic act of senseless arson. But when the Zionist Army of Occupation targets Red Crescent ambulances and incinerates them along with the innocent people inside (e.g. Hind Rajab הי”ד) as part of its genocide in Gaza, it sends a dangerous message to the world that Jews don’t value human life ח”ו. Protesters around the world react accordingly and take the Zionists’ claim of representing world Jewry at face value, עפרא לפומיה. Apparently, in all their heretical genocidal zeal, the Zionists (including the “religious” Zionists ימ”ש) forgot what Hillel stated – מה ששנוא עליך אל תעשה לחברך.
This is exactly why the Satmar Rav זצוקלה”ה exclaimed that Zionism is the greatest danger to Jews, and we just saw an example of it last night. To which I can only add – RACHMONO LITZLAN!! 🙁
The people responsible for the flare up in antisemitism are all those accusing Israel of genocide, war crimes, etc. I mean Gutteres, Starmer, ICC, ICJ officials, and various other politicians.
Totally not HaShem sending the latest message to all Diaspora Jews to move back to the one Land He literally bequeathed to them, and only them.
Why are we not organizing ourselves to move back, en-masse, to our ancestral inheritance?! Every other Pasuk in the Torah is HaShem reiterating again and again that He gave us this Land for posterity, and that we should live in, and prosper in it. With HaShem facilitating the Nations of the world voluntarily restoring the Land to the Jewish People in 1948, the sole barrier that existed against mass-return, that of the Shevuah the Gemara says that HaShem made, that we not rebel against the Nations, has been rendered obsolete. It’s time we all move back to our Homeland, and hope that Mashiach comes ASAP. But at the very least, we should live in our own Land, in our own society, completely insulated from the corrupted Western world.
The reason this is not being facilitated? Straight-up hapless, subservient Galus-mentality is what it is…SAD!
Wow Yossi, I feel so bad for you. You wrote this comment from Iran, as these mullah thugs were forcing you and probably threatening your family. I hope you learned your lesson and understand that it’s time to leave.
sickofidiots, it’s even worse – I’m writing this comment in Ramat Beit Shemesh, Occupied Palestine
This part of my comments is to the person above known as Yakov Gelb; (copied from the Wikipedia Page on Vayoel Moshe), “Vayoel Moshe is primarily a book of Halacha, Jewish law. However, it draws on Rabbinic Jewish philosophy as well.
Although Teitelbaum’s obligation to follow anti-Zionism is a minority position in Judaism since the early 20th century, some Jewish scholars such as Shaul Magid, believe the text should be more widely known and understood, even among opponents of those beliefs.[1]
Structure[edit]
The book consists of three parts:
1. Maamar Shalosh Shevuos (Treatise regarding the Three Oaths), is an in-depth analysis of the Three Oaths and their practical halachic implications.
The “Three Oaths” are originally detailed by the Talmud in tractate Ketubot.[2] The Talmud discusses a passage from the Song of Songs in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) in which God made the Israelites promise “to wait for Him before arousing his love”, as “King Solomon in Song of Songs thrice adjured the daughters of Jerusalem not to arouse or bestir the love until it is ready”. The Talmud explains that the Jewish people are bound by three oaths:
Not to ascend to Eretz Yisrael “like a wall” (i. e., in a strong manner).
Not to rebel against the nations of the world.
For the nations of the world not to oppress them too much.
The Talmud follows the discussion of the oaths with a strong warning:
… Rabbi Elazar said: The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to the Jewish people: If you fulfill the oath, it is good, and if not, I will abandon your flesh, and all will devour you like the gazelles and like the hinds of the field.
Teitelbaum discusses the legal status of the oaths, and what they imply. He argues that while the oaths are clearly metaphorical, and do not have the legal status of actual oaths,[3] they are to be understood as guidelines for what is considered to be an attempt to leave exile before divine redemption, which he posits is severely forbidden and is tantamount to heresy.[4]
2. Maamar Yishuv Eretz Yisroel (Treatise about settling the Land of Israel), which seeks to clarify if there is a halachic obligation to dwell in the land of Israel, as well as general halachic concerns regarding Jews emigrating to Israel, known as Aliyah.
3. Maamar Leshon HaKodesh (Treatise about the holy tongue), in which Teitelbaum writes that not only is there no reason to choose to speak Modern Hebrew – it is actually forbidden. This was written as a personal answer to the chief rabbi of Montreal at the time, Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, and it was later added into this book.”
I would like to add my comments to this Yeshiva World News article above about the upsetting situation regarding the Hatzlolah Golders Green London United Kingdom Ambulance fires. It is a horror. Yes. I know this won’t be taken with sincerity but what is it to obey Shabbes Laws/Yom Tov’vm Laws/Rosh Chodesh Laws and other special days noted in Torah Law? What is the actual Law of Shabbes for instance regarding work on the Shabbes? Are we, despite the allowance by Rabbi’s over the centuries, allowed to desecrate the Shabbes? Now that we have electronics and cellphones/computers/up-to-date medical hospital information available to everyone at a moment’s notice why is is all being used on Shabbes of all days of the weeks of the Torah Year? I know that to save a life is of paramount importance! But at the complete and I mean complete expense of the Shabbes Laws? What is Shabbes to all Yidden/Jews anyway? What does H”M want when he states very clearly and without any hesitation that Thou Shalt Remember and Observe the Shabbes? When we can clearly at will, I might add, break every Shabbes Law to protect a harmed life, what is the point of Shabbes Laws at that point? Are the Shabbes Laws meant to be broken? Are we as Yidden/Jews allowed to snub H”M in the Punim and tell H-m in our succinct ways that we, we Yidden/Jews/Rabbeim know best? That to uphold Shabbes Laws are to be kept, except for upholding these Laws in modern/contemporary times when it seems emergencies must be an amendment to all Shabbes/Yom Tov-vim/Rosh Chodesh and other special days on the Torah Luach/Liach/Calendar. I know there are those with firery words in response to my comments here. But what is it to have a clearly stated Aseres HaDibros Law/Ten Commandments Law/Statement of a Declaration of H”M’s Holy Words. Are H-s Words Holy or what? Well are they Holy or what? You may all light into me or take the lightning up of several ambulances in England as a way to say that I am anti-semitic. I am not, I repeat, I am not anti-semitic. I am defending H”M. I am defending His Shabbes Laws. What are all of you defending? Was H”M serious when He stated and I quote in an American English Paraphrase, “Remember the Shabbes Day and Keep it Holy, six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the Seventh Day is a Shabbes of the Eternal Your G-D, you shall not do any work you, your son, or your daughter, your male or female slave, or your cattle, or the stranger who is within your settlements, for in Six days G-D made Shamayim/Heaven and earth and sea, and all that is in them, and then rested on the Seventh Day, therefore G-D blessed the Seventh Day, and Hallowed it.” (paraphrased from the American English translation named Sefaria.org). Why are we so inclined to accept a Rabbinical Determination that Shabbes Laws can be neglected? (in any way shape or form)? Please consider my comments in this context. I am not anti-semitic. I am only trying very hard to consider this Ambulance demise in this context. That is all. Now you may respond however you feel inclined. I will state, I LOVE H”M and I LOVE H”M’s Laws as written and not as disputed by others. That is all. signed, Rebbe Shlita Dovid Daniel Teitelbaum, Satmar Kiryas Yoel New York.
Yossi Name Edited:
סייג לחכמה שתיקה.
’nuff said.