A kippa-wearing Jewish man and his two children were violently assaulted on Saturday in Berlin by an Arab suspect, who was arrested, according to the ultra-Orthodox news outlet B'Chadrei Charedim. The attack comes amid a record year of antisemitic hostility in Germany, with over 8,700 incidents classified as 'hostile to Jews' in 2025.
According to B'Chadrei Charedim, a kippa-wearing man and his two children were violently attacked on Saturday in Berlin by an Arab suspect, who was subsequently arrested. The incident adds to a grim picture of rising antisemitism in Germany: on Thursday, official figures showed the country recorded 8,725 antisemitic incidents in 2025 — the highest annual tally on record. The current attack has not yet been formally confirmed by German authorities, and additional details on the victims' condition or the precise location have not been reported.
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