A 22 year old Israeli Jewish man was stabbed Tuesday morning (roughly 2:00 am EST) in Crown Heights, outside the Chabad-Lubavitch building at 770 Eastern Parkway in New York City.
The man’s condition is defined as stable, but serious; he was reportedly stabbed in the neck. The public has been asked to pray for him; his Hebrew name is Levy Yitzhak ben Raizel. He reportedly began studying at the Chabad recently after arriving in New York from Beitar Illit, according to Yeshiva World News.
Police arrived at the scene and apprehended the perpetrator, who according to several source, is of African-American descent and may be Muslim. He was shot after refusing to drop his weapon and later died after being taken to hospital.
The street has been closed to traffic in both directions.
Yacov Haguel, head of the Department for Combating Antisemitism in the World Zionist Organization (WZO), told Arutz Sheva following the incident in New York that “the Jews are easy prey to hatred and incitement spreading around the world at any time.”
“The stabbing of a Jew at the Chabad House stabbing joins the significant surge of violent anti-Semitism in France, Belgium, in Europe and of course the United States,” he added. “US authorities must wake up and start to treat anti-Semitism seriously.”
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