Hatzola North West purchases site for new Golders Green HQ

Purchase made possible by the more than £1.8 million donated in emergency crowdfunder campaign following arson attack in March

Jewish volunteer medical service Hatzola Northwest has bought a site on the corner of Limes Avenue and Golders Green Road in north west London with a view to creating a new permanent home for its team of 70 first responders over the next two years.

The purchase comes four months after four of the services’ ambulances at the charity’s base in the car park of the Machzei Hadass synagogue were destroyed, in a suspected antisemitic arson attack in Golders Green in the early hours of Monday March 23.

Whilst the government stepped in with replacement vehicles, thousands from across the community and wider British society donated to an emergency Hatzola NW charity crowdfunding campaign, with more than half a million pounds raised in the first few hours following the blaze.

Hatzola NW chairman Shloimie Richman said: “The purchase of this site represents an amazing next step in the growth of Hatzola Northwest and will enable us to consolidate all our services under one roof from the heart of our community.”

Staff from Hatzola Northwest Emergency Ambulance Service stand alongside some of the replacement ambulances which are on loan from the London Ambulance Service (LAS), at the the Jewish Community Ambulance service in Golders Green, London. Four ambulances belonging to Jewish charity Hatzola were set on fire in the early hours of Monday, with dramatic footage showing gas cannisters that were stored in the vehicles exploding. Picture date: Tuesday March 24, 2026. Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire

He added that together with the assistance of local partners, the crowdfunding campaign had “enabled Hatzola to move swiftly in the purchase of the land and provides a two year window to work up suitable plans and secure funding for the construction of the new premises.”

Hatzola North West currently covers the communities of Golders Green, Hendon, Hampstead Garden Suburb, and Finchley.

The proposed site is also currently home to the Iranian Freedom Wall, a community memorial space offered by the local Jewish community and dedicated to the thousands of anti-regime protesters killed in Iran during the January 2026 uprisings. A section of the wall is also dedicated to those murdered by Hamas terrorists at the Nova music festival on 7 October 2023.

The wall, in Golders Green, features the pictures of hundreds of people murdered by the Iranian regime in January, when tens of thousands of Iranian civilians were believed to have been killed (Credit: Twitter/ @Conservatives)

A spokersperson from Hatzola NW told Jewish News: “All parties involved in the purchase, sale and lease arrangements are aware of the sensitive nature of the Freedom Wall, and the matter is being approached with great care. This includes ongoing coordination with Barnet Council and the site manager, both of whom have expressed their commitment to working constructively and doing everything possible to provide appropriate support.”

As part of the transaction, the new site, adjacent to Jewish Care’s Wohl Campus, will be leased to Kosher Kingdom. The business will temporarily trade from the premises until its nearby shop is refurbished and ready to re-open, following a major fire on 27 May which forced the closure of the flagship Golders Green store. The Metropolitan Police said the blaze was not being treated as suspicious and was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault.

As reported by Jewish News last month, Hatzola’s Hertsmere branch is also opening a new headquarters in Borehamwood after purchasing a former Hertsmere Borough Council property, providing the charity with its first permanent operational base.