Tag: Munich Olympics Massacre
Sylvia Raphael, former top Mossad agent, honored in Rosh Ha’ayin
On Jan. 22, 2024, old friends, representatives of Israel's South African community and former colleagues gathered in Rosh Ha’ayin for the unveiling of a lane named in honor of former Mossad agent Sylvia Raphael.
Unveiling...
![A plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters commemorates the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. The inscription, in German and Hebrew, reads: “The team of the State of Israel lived in this building during the 20th Olympic Summer Games from 21 August to 5 September 1972. On 5 September, [list of victims] died a violent death. Honor to their memory.” Credit: Wikimedia Commons.](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Memorial-to-Israeli-Athletes-Munich-Olympics-1972-Massacre-880x495-1-324x235.jpg "Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas?")
Will the Munich panel acknowledge the role of Abbas?
The German government has created a commission of historians to study the massacre of Israeli athletes by Palestinian Arab terrorists at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Germany’s Interior Minister has promised that the review will be...
Israel’s marathon team wins gold in Munich 50 years after Olympics massacre
Israel’s national men’s marathon team won the gold medal at the 2022 European Athletics Championships in Munich, Germany, 50 years after Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes and coaches at the 1972 Olympics in...
Why the world won’t care about Abbas’s ‘Holocaust’ lie
There’s something almost pathetic about the outrage generated after the latest comments by Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. In Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who was standing with him, the...
Abbas tells Germany leader Israel committed ‘Holocausts’ against Palestinians
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed no regrets on Tuesday for the murderous attack by Palestinian terrorists on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics half a century ago.
He also claimed that Israel had committed...
The 1972 Munich Olympics slaughter from the other side of the street
A telephone call on the morning of Sept. 5, 1972 woke up three East German journalists who had been sent to cover the Munich Olympics. This was the first Olympic Games in which East...
Swimming with the tide: Athlete, actor, volunteer and Israeli supporter Mark Spitz
Fifty years after the 1972 summer Olympics in Munich, swimmer Mark Spitz is still a household name and a Jewish legend. He is best known for winning seven gold medals in the 1972 games....
Widow thanks Olympics for memorial event honoring victims of Munich massacre
An official memorial ceremony was held in Tokyo for the Israeli Olympic athletes who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
The event took place at Israel’s embassy in Japan on Sunday....
Hungarian Holocaust survivor turned Olympic gold medalist dies at age 92
Eva Szekely, a Hungarian Holocaust survivor who later became an Olympics multiple award-winning swimmer, died on Feb. 29 the age of 92.
During World War II, fascist militants in Hungary came to take Szekely, then 17, away...