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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Whittaker

‘I wasn’t thinking when I tackled the Golders Green knifeman – I just knew I had to act’

Yonathan Elkouby “didn’t think twice” and dropped everything to tackle the knifeman in Golders Green when his radio alerted him to the incident.

The 33-year-old has volunteered for Shomrim, a Jewish organisation that helps protect people from crime, for five years, and said it isn’t the first time he has had a “knife in his face” amid a growing number of anti-semitic incidents.

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