Jerusalem experienced a double day of terror Tuesday, after Palestinian Arabs attacked a Jewish man in his twenties with iron bars near the New Gate in the heart of the city just hours after the Har Nof massacre which killed four people and fatally wounded another. 

Daniel Bronstein, the victim of the iron bar attack, spoke about his experiences to Arutz Sheva on Wednesday. 

“I passed by the Safra square to the New Gate, near the Light Rail,” he said. “Suddenly, five Arabs arrived and sprayed pepper spray in my eyes.”

The Arabs shouted at him to “move” before spraying the pepper spray, he said. 

Bronstein was then beaten, but he does not remember details of events. 

“I don’t remember exactly what happened from that point on,” he noted. “I saw blood leaking from the back of my head and realized that it was trailing down my body…later, I found out I had been hit on the head. I did not see my assailants at all. I sat down and tried to call someone for help but couldn’t because my hands were shaking.” 

A woman who was next to him, probably a tourist, asked him in English if she could help him or if he wanted water.

“I told her to call an ambulance,” he said. “Then there were some people who spoke to me in Hebrew and English.”

United Hatzalah and Magen David Adom (MDA) medics arrived at the scene and treated Bronstein’s head injuries before transferring him to a local hospital for treatment.

“They gave me stitches on my skull and treated my eyes,” he said.

His condition is gradually improving, although he is still dizzy.

As for his personal feelings on the attack, he says he feels “a lot of grief and disappointment, and I have a lot of questions about living in Jerusalem itself.”