Terrorism against Israel: Pre-2000 - 2000 - 2001 - 2002 - 2003 - 2004

This page is a partial list of incidents of terrorism against Israel in 2000.

Note: This compilation includes only casualties of the violence. Attacks which did not result in death or injury are not included.

Total Civilian Death Toll in 2000: 44

February (death toll: 3)

• February 9: Dov and Gabriella Weiss of Givat Ze'ev , a suburb of Jerusalem, were found bludgeoned to death in their home. Police confirmed that the attack was terrorist in nature.
• February 27: Gadi Rejwan was shot to death by one of the Arab workers in his factory located in the Atarot Industrial Park in Jerusalem.

April (death toll: 2)

• April 27: Efrat Lesser, a 17-year-old female resident of Elon Moreh was shot by terrorists and suffered a head wound.

May

• May 7: Yaakov Manzor, aged 9, and his brother Yitzhak, aged 17, were stabbed repeatedly in the chest and abdomen in Jerusalem.
• May 21: Shalev Shabbat, aged 2, was critically burned and the child's mother Segal Egozi, injured in a firebomb attack in Jericho.
• May 30: A roadside bomb exploded at Netzarim Junction in Gaza while a convoy of cars passed.

June

• June 20: A roadside bomb was detonated as a vehicles passed on the Netzarim/Karnei Road in the Gaza Strip. One person was wounded.

July

• July 23: Arabs attacked and stabbed a Jerusalem municipality inspector near the Damascus Gate.

August

September (death toll: 2)

• September 27: Terrorists attack a group of vehicles traveling to Netzarim with two roadside bombs and automatic gunfire. David Biri, age 19, is wounded. [1] [2]
• September 28: David Biri dies of wounds suffered in a Palestinian terrorist attack the previous day.
• September 29: Border policeman Chief Inspector Yossi Tabaji, 27, of Ramle, killed and a second Israeli border policeman wounded by a Palestinian Authority policeman on a joint patrol near Kalkiliya District Coordinating Office. [3]

October (death toll: 10)

• October 2: Vitslav Zasslevsky, 24, of Ashdod, was shot to death by terrorists. [4]
• October 6: Rabbi Hillel Lieberman, 37, was shot to death by terrorists while traveling to Joseph's Tomb, a site the Palestinian Authority undertook to protect and provide Israelis access to under the Oslo Accords. [5]
• October 8: an Israeli was found dead in Nablus.
• October 12: two Israeli reserve soldiers were lynched by Palestinian mob after erroneously entering Ramallah.
• October 19: Rabbi Binyamin Herling was murdered by terrorist gunfire on Mount Eval in Samaria. [6]
• October 28: Mark Gavrilov, 25, of Bnei Ayish, was shot and killed and placed inside a car which was set ablaze inside the Palestinian Authority-controlled area of the Ramallah district. [7]
• October 30: One security guard died and a second was wounded at an office of the national insurance carrier, Bituah Leumi, by point blank range gunfire. [8]
• October 30: Amos Mahlouf, 30, of Jerusalem was found between Gilo and nearby Palestinian Authority-controlled Bet Jala with hands and legs tied having died from multiple stab wounds. [9]

November (death toll: 21)

• November 2: two Israeli civilians were killed in a car bombing in Jerusalem. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
• November 8: Noa Dahan, 25, was killed and Oz Parishta, 17, wounded, in a terrorist shooting attack near Rehiah. [10]
• November 8: an Israeli was killed while driving to her job in Gaza.
• November 13: two civilians died in shooting incidents in the West Bank and Gaza.
• November 20: two adults were killed while escorting a schoolbus in Gaza. 5 children and 4 adults were injured.
• November 21: an Israeli youth was killed by a sniper in Gaza.
• November 22: two Israeli women killed and 60 civilians were wounded in a car bomb attack in Hadera.
• November 24: an army-employed civilian was killed in the West Bank.

December (death toll: 8)

• December 8: An Israeli teacher travelling in a van, and the van's driver, were killed in a drive-by attack in the West Bank.
• December 21: an Israeli civilian was ambushed and killed near Jerusalem.
• December 28: a border police officer killed while dismantling a road-side bomb, by another explosive device, in the Gaza strip. Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility.
• December 31: Binyamin Zeev Kahane (the son of Meir Kahane) and his wife, Talia, were killed in an ambush by Palestinian snipers. 5 of their children driving with them were injured.

External links

• Casualties of War
• Palestinian terrorism since September 2000 (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
• List of victims (from Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs)