Yitzhak Yohanan Melamed[1][2] (Hebrew: יצחק מלמד; born March 7, 1968)[3] is an Israeli philosopher and a leading scholar of Spinoza and modern philosophy.
Melamed has won numerous fellowships and grants, including the Fulbright (1996-8), American Academy for Jewish Research (2003-5), Mellon (2005), Humboldt (2011), NEH (2012), and ACLS-Burkhardt (2012) Fellowships, and taught intensive masterclasses at the University of Toronto (2016), École normale supérieure de Lyon (2016), Peking University (2017), and the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (2019).
Police officials stated that the officers had mistakenly assumed that Melamed was the aggressor because they saw him chase after the other man upon arrival.
[8][9][10] The Chief of Bonn Police Ursula Brohl-Sowa [de] and Interior Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia Herbert Reul issued apologies the next day.
[13] The attacker, a German citizen of Palestinian descent with a prior conviction for armed robbery, was caught on July 17, after he was reported for threatening passerby with a knife in Hofgarten and sentenced to four years imprisonment on October 14, 2019 on one charge of Volksverhetzung.