LONDON: Four young British men on Friday admitted to an arson attack on community ambulances in London, the first of a spate of incidents targeting the capital’s Jewish community this year. The four ambulances belonging to Jewish volunteer emergency service Hatzola were set ablaze on March 23 while they were parked near a synagogue. In other attacks in April and May, a synagogue and a former synagogue were targeted, as was Persian-language media organization Iran International and a memorial wall dedicated to people killed in Iran.

Four men have pleaded guilty to destroying four Jewish community ambulances in an arson attack in north London earlier this year that many said was a direct result of the start of…

The arson attack happened on March 23 when four ambulances from Hatzola, a volunteer-led ambulance service operating in the Golders Green area of north London, were set on fire.