Swedish rabbi says woman’s stabbing appears anti-Semitic; attacker said Muslim

A leading rabbi in Sweden says the attack on a Jewish woman that left her critically injured appears to have been anti-Semitic in nature.

Rabbi Uzi Lavian made the statement to Channel 12 news, though authorities have yet to make any official statement on the matter.

Meanwhile, Israel’s Foreign Ministry reports that the assailant is a Muslim man known to authorities.

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