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Tuvia Grossman

Tuvia Grossman is an Israeli-American man who was wrongly identified as a Palestinian in an Associated Press photograph taken in Jerusalem in September 2000.

born 2000The misidentified 2000 AP photographMedia coverage of the Second Intifada

Occupation: jurist

Tuvia Grossman was born in 2000 in Chicago

Tuvia Grossman is a Jewish man from Chicago. In 2000 he was a student at Yeshivas Bais Yisroel in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Neve Yaakov.

On the eve of Rosh Hashanah in September 2000, he took a taxi with 2 friends to the Western Wall. The driver went through the Palestinian neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, where a mob dragged Grossman out, beat him, stabbed him in the leg and struck his head with rocks. He ran to a gas station, where an Israeli Border Police officer protected him from the crowd.

A photograph of Grossman bleeding beneath the officer was distributed by the AP with a caption calling him a Palestinian, and in some cases placing the scene on the Temple Mount. Newspapers including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal printed it. After his father wrote to The New York Times, the paper published corrections, and the AP acknowledged the error.

In April 2002 a Paris court ordered the French newspaper Libération and the AP to pay Grossman 4,500 euros in damages. He later moved to Israel.

Milestones in Tuvia Grossman's life

2000
Attacked by a mob in Wadi al-Joz, Jerusalem, and photographed with a Border Police officer.
2000
The New York Times published corrections identifying him.
2002
A Paris court awarded him 4,500 euros from Libération and the AP.