Israel at the 1972 Summer Olympics

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Israel at the Olympic Games

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At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich
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Israel competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. After the murder of eleven Israeli athletes by terrorists in the Munich massacre, the team left the event immediately.[1]

[edit] The Names of the Munich Eleven

David Berger
Ze'ev Friedman
Yossef Gutfreund
Yossef Romano
Eliezer Halfin
Amitzur Shapira
Kehat Shorr
Mark Slavin
Andre Spitzer
Yakov Springer
Moshe Weinberg

The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame has a permanent memorial called the Pillar of Faith dedicated to the Munich Eleven.[2]

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