Munich Olympics Massacre
An 18-country network codenamed “Kilowatt” reportedly gave Israeli agents information on Palestinians, some of whom were assassinated in Europe.
Aliza Magen was involved in hundreds of intelligence activities and served in a variety of command positions in Israel and abroad.
The Palestinian-American supermodel says antisemitism has no place in the quest for Palestinian liberation.
The president will participate in a memorial marking 52 years since 11 Israeli sportsmen were taken hostage and killed at the Munich Games.
European Jewish Association chairman Rabbi Menachem Margolin spoke to the company’s leadership about the ”deeply insensitive and painful” campaign given the murder of 11 Israeli athletes by Palestinian terrorists.
“People walking along this picturesque riverside lane named after her can know they are doing so in safety because of the service she performed,” said the city’s mayor, Shalom Ben-Moshe.
Germany sets up panel to review 1972 Munich Massacre
The commission will “rigorously examine the period before and after” the attack, says Germany’s interior minister.
“The possession of weapons of mass destruction by a U.N. member state that calls on a daily basis for the annihilation of another U.N. member state is simply inconceivable,” says the Israeli president.
“For us, as a people and as a country, this massacre has always been a national disaster. It desecrated the cohesive sanctity of the Olympics, the ultimate symbol of sports, and smeared its flag with blood.”
“Shameful” that it took 50 years to reach a compensation agreement with the victims’ families, says German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
Israeli, German presidents welcome compensation agreement for 1972 Munich victims
Isaac Herzog and Frank-Walter Steinmeier will attend the tragedy’s 50th anniversary memorial event in Munich.
![A plaque in front of the Israeli athletes' quarters commemorating the victims of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre reads, in German and Hebrew: “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://static.jns.org/dims4/default/62b8df7/2147483647/strip/true/crop/2986x1678+0+72/resize/500x281!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fk2-prod-jns-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com%2Fbrightspot%2Fuploads%2F2022%2F08%2FGerman-Plaque-to-Munich-Olympics-Massacre.jpg)
The German government has reportedly agreed to pay the families of the 11 victims $28 million, opening the way for them to attend an event in Germany marking the 50th anniversary of the attack.
