The October 2000 protests, also known as October 2000 events, were a series of protests in Arab villages in northern Israel in October 2000 that turned violent, escalating into rioting by Israeli Arabs, which led to counter-rioting by Israeli Jews and clashes with the Israel Police and ending in the deaths of 13 Arab demonstrators and 1 Israeli Jew.[1][2]
The Or Commission was established to investigate the police response to the rioting. Israeli media outlets refer to the episode as אירועי אוקטובר 2000 - the "October 2000 events"[3] while the Arab community refers to it as the "October ignition" (Arabic: هبة أكتوبر, romanized: hibba ʾUktūbir).
- ^ Yair Ettinger. "Extremism isn't Growing, but Fear is". Ha'aretz. Retrieved 20 February 2006.
- ^ Dan Rabinowitz, 'October 2000, revisited,' Haaretz 19 October 2004
- ^ Sharon Roffe-Ofir (20 November 2006). "Families of October 2000 victims reject compensation". Ynetnews. YNet.