Va’adat HaChakira [Report of the Investigation Committee]

First Hebrew edition of the Report of the Commission on the Palestine Disturbances of August 1929, commonly known as the Shaw Commission, set up by the British Mandate authorities to investigate the August 1929 Palestine Riots. The riots (also known as the Western Wall Uprising) took the form of attacks by Arabs on Jews (133 of whom were killed), accompanied by destruction of Jewish property, mainly in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed. The Shaw Commission found that the fundamental cause of the violence “without which in our opinion disturbances either would not have occurred or would not have been little more than a local riot, is the Arab feeling of animosity and hostility towards the Jews consequent upon the disappointment of their political and national aspirations and fear for their economic future.”