Ze'ev Friedman

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Ze'ev Friedman (June 10, 1944 - September 6, 1972) was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter and victim of the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre.

Ze'ev was born in Siberia and, after spending some time in Poland, moved to Israel in 1960. He had a younger sister named Nina. He spent time in the Israeli army, involved in anti-terrorist missions, and is rumored to have had a brief affair with a female Palestinian whom he wounded on one of his sorties (Groussard, pgs. 189-190). He started his sports career as a gymnast. After a while he decided that he liked lifting weights better.

In 1972 Ze'ev Friedman competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany as a weightlifter. On September 5, members of the Palestinian Black September group broke into the Israeli team's dormitory and took hostage several Israeli athletes and coaches including Friedman. After protracted negotiations, the kidnappers brought the hostages to an airport via helicopter and killed them during an attempted rescue by Munich police and Bavarian border guards.

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Groussard, S. (New York, 1975), The Blood of Israel: the massacre of the Israeli athletes, the Olympics, 1972 ISBN 0-688-02910-8


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