Remember this False Headline Condeming Israel? Now Victim and Savior Meet After Ten Years
How many of you remember that ubiquitous photo of "an Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount" published by the New York Times, AP and other news media in the year 2000? The headlines implied that an Israeli policeman beat up a Palestinian at the Temple Mount. The identities, as well as the place--were wrong. The true story and correct identity of the bloodied victim were brought to light after the victim's father, Dr. Aaron Grossman, sent a letter to the New York Times stating that the young injured man was a Jew, his son Tuvia, who was, along with two friends, dragged from a taxicab on a street in Jerusalem and brutally attacked by Arabs while on the way to the Kotel (Western Wall). This was the incident that launched the Web site Honest Reporting, and it is they who searched for the young man and the Israeli soldier in order to reunite them. Now, ten years after this incident, Tuvia Grossman, the young man who was stabbed and almost beaten ...