Following a spate of attacks on Jewish premises in north London, a BBC Panorama documentary screened this week featured over a dozen individuals speaking of fears for their safety.

The recent destruction of four ambulances belonging to a Jewish charity has been followed by further arson attempts on two synagogues and a business amid record numbers of antisemitic incidents including last year’s Manchester synagogue attack that left two men dead.

Now Judith Moritz is examining how intimidation and violence has left many British Jews feeling fearful and under threat.

Amanda, a 47-year-old community leader, says that simply going about her daily life has brought her abuse. She has been spat at in the street, branded a ‘baby killer’ and received a death threat, just for being Jewish.

In a WhatsApp group of about 20 of her Jewish friends, many of whom are children or grandchildren of refugees from the Nazis who once saw the UK as a haven from antisemitism, she says conversations have shifted from neighbourhood chat to more existential questions.

“There aren’t any Jewish people I know who haven’t got plans to leave,” she says, adding that many of her group are considering emigrating within the next few months, mainly to Israel.

And they are not alone. According to Israeli government migration statistics, more British Jews have moved to Israel in the past twelve months than in any other year since the turn of this century.

Charles Gardner is author of Israel the Chosen, available from Amazon; Peace in Jerusalem, available from olivepresspublisher.com; To the Jew First, A Nation Reborn, and King of the Jews, all available from Christian Publications International.