Six men attacked 22-year-old Shalev Ben Yakar outside a Golders Green hotel after hearing him speak Hebrew on the phone, he told British media and police.
Six men assaulted an Israeli man in London on early on Monday morning after hearing him speak Hebrew on the phone, he told police and the media.
The Israeli, Shalev Ben Yakar, 22, also complained to police about the beating that he said the six men gave him outside the Solomon Hotel in Golders Green, The Jewish Chronicle of London reported on Monday.
“[They caught me] completely off guard. I was not ready. I saw [them] coming [toward] me, and I had a suspicious feeling [about them], but in one second suddenly one of them was running [towards] me and jumped me,” he told the paper.
The attackers kicked Ben Yakar while speaking Arabic and at least one of them asked him: “Are you Jewish,” he said. They set upon him as he was speaking on the phone to Israeli friends in Hebrew outside the hotel, he added.