"MANCHESTER, England Police on Friday identified the two men who were killed in a car and knife attack on a synagogue in northwest England on the holiest day of the Jewish year, as Britain's chief rabbi said an "unrelenting wave" of antisemitism lay behind the crime. Greater Manchester Police said local residents Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, died in the attack on the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in the Manchester suburb of Crumpsall."
"Police shot and killed a suspect seven minutes after he rammed a car into pedestrians outside the synagogue on Thursday morning and then attacked them with a knife. He wore what appeared to be an explosives belt, which was found to be fake. The assault took place as people gathered at the Orthodox synagogue on Yom Kippur, the day of atonement and the most solemn day in the Jewish calendar."
"Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, the head of Orthodox Judaism in Britain, said the attack was the result of "an unrelenting wave of Jew hatred" on the streets and online. "This is the day we hoped we would never see, but which deep down, we knew would come," he wrote on social media. The attacker was identified by police as Jihad Al-Shamie, a 35-year-old British citizen of Syrian descent who entered the United Kingdom as a young child and became a citizen in 2006."
Two local residents, Adrian Daulby, 53, and Melvin Cravitz, 66, were killed in a car-and-knife attack at the Heaton Park Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, Manchester. Police shot and killed a suspect seven minutes after he rammed a car into pedestrians and then attacked them with a knife; the explosives belt he wore proved to be fake. Three other people remain hospitalized in serious condition. The attack occurred as people gathered for Yom Kippur. Authorities identified the suspect as Jihad Al-Shamie, 35, a British citizen of Syrian descent, and are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack; three arrests were made.
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