A young Orthodox Jewish man walks on April 30, 2026 toward the London bus stop where a man was attacked the day before in what is now being characterized by authorities as a terrorist incident. Leon Neal / Getty Images

The British government has pledged about $34 million to combat what one cabinet member is calling an antisemitism emergency facing the U.K., a day after two Jewish men were stabbed in broad daylight in north London in an incident being investigated as terrorism.

The announcement, made by State Security Minister Dan Jarvis on Times Radio, came a day after Shloime Rand, 34, and Moshe Shine, 76, were stabbed in the heavily Jewish Golders Green area of London. Both were in stable condition but were still being treated for their injuries Thursday.

The new funding from the national government will be spent on additional police patrols and protection around synagogues, community centers and schools, and legislation to put it in place will be "fast-tracked" over the next few weeks, Jarvis said.

"I am treating this as an emergency," Home Secretary Minister Shabana Mahmood told CBS News partner network BBC News on Thursday.

Counterterrorism officers with the London Metropolitan Police are investigating Wednesday's stabbing to determine whether there were any links to a recent string of antisemitic attacks around synagogues and in Jewish areas of the city, including several previous incidents in Golders Green.

The suspect taken into custody in Wednesday's knife attack, a 45 year-old man, came to the U.K. "lawfully as a child" from Somalia, Mahmood told BBC News on Thursday. She said she couldn't give further details as the investigation is ongoing.

London police said Thursday that the suspect had previously been referred to the government's counterextremism program "Prevent," and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley said he had a "history of serious violence and mental health issues."

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