Or Commission

The Or Commission (Hebrew: ועדת אור), fully the Commission of Inquiry into the Clashes Between Security Forces and Israeli Citizens in October 2000 (ועדת החקירה הממלכתית לבירור ההתנגשויות בין כוחות הביטחון לבין אזרחים ישראלים באוקטובר 2000), was a panel of inquiry appointed by the Israeli government to investigate the events of October 2000 at the beginning of the Second Intifada in which 12 Arab citizens of Israel and one Palestinian were killed by Israeli police amid several demonstrations. One Israeli Jew was killed by a stone dropped from a bridge onto her vehicle near one such demonstration; however, it is not clear that the incident was linked.[1] The commission released its findings on "the clashes between security forces and Israeli civilians"[2] on September 2, 2003. The chief investigator was Theodor Or, an Israeli Supreme Court Justice.[3]

  1. ^ שער שלישי : אירועים מיוחדים - 1.10.00, 2.10.00 : פרק א' - פרדיס - 1.10.00 [Third Gate: Special Events: 1 October 2000 to 2 October 2000: Section A - Faradies 1 October 2000] (in Hebrew). State of Israel Judicial Authority.
  2. ^ "Or Commission Timeline". Haaretz. 31 August 2003. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  3. ^ Or, Theodor on the website of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law [1]