Tuvia Grossman

Tuvia Grossman is an American Jew who had been identified in 2000 during the Second Intifada incorrectly as abused Palestinians. The Associated Press published a picture, which slumped in an Israeli policeman with raised baton showed him bleeding.

Background

Grossman, who studied at the Yeshiva Bais Yisroel English in Neve Yaakov in East Jerusalem, was in the Arab quarter of Wadi Al- Joz with two friends traveling in a taxi. The vehicle was stopped by a mob of 40 Arabs, the students dragged, beaten and abused out of the taxi. Grossman was able to flee to a gas station, where he was protected by an Israeli policeman. At the moment the photo was created.

The image has been published during the Second Intifada, among others, in the New York Times, the Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and other media worldwide. It turned out later that it was not a battered Palestinians.

The father Tuvias complained in a letter to the NYT, which had a considerable press coverage result. Likewise Liberation and AP were sentenced to pay damages.

The policeman Gideon Tzefadi is an Israeli Druze and former Chief Superintendent of Police in East Jerusalem. Ten years later he met with Grossman, who now lives in Israel.

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