Editing October 2000 protests in Israel (section)

=== 8 October ===
Jews from [[Nof HaGalil|Nazareth Illit]], including apparently many Russian-speakers,<ref name="RabKhaw" >Dan Rabinowitz, Khawla Abu-Baker. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qcnz7SCkyAMC&pg=PA105  ''Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel,''] University of California Press, 2005 p.105.</ref> attacked Arabs and their homes and businesses in Nazareth on the eve of [[Yom Kippur]]. Police, informed of the intention to attack Arabs, beefed up their forces and deployed them on the seam line between the two communities. When hundreds of Jewish youths from Nazareth Illit came down to throw stones and vandalize Arab properties, however, the police did not impede them. The Arab residents emerged from their homes to defend them, and reciprocal stone throwing clashes ensued. Police dispersed the riots with tear gas and live ammunition.<ref name=HaaretzTimeline/> Two Arabs, Omar Akawi and Wissam Yazbek, were shot dead, the latter by a gunshot wound to the head, fired by a policeman from behind him.<ref name="RabKhaw" /> The shooters were never identified.<ref name="Rabinowitz" />

Three Arab-owned apartments were torched in [[Tel Aviv]], and hundreds clashed with police. Demonstrators chased two Arab employees out of a restaurant and set fire to it which damaged two Arab-owned cars parked in front.<ref name=HaaretzTimeline/>