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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 572

Black September

Sean Penn, John Ira Palmer, John Wildermuth, Tim Fehlbaum, and Jake Kasdan speak onstage during a CAA Screening and Filmmaker Q&A of "September 5" in Los Angeles at Creative Artists Agency on December 08, 2024, in Los Angeles, California. (Phillip Faraone / Getty Images via AFP)
December 14, 2024, 2:27 pm
‘September 5’ focuses on news, not Jews, in dramatizing 1972 Munich attack
New film about massacre of Israeli athletes at Olympic Games offers different perspective than Spielberg’s ‘Munich,’ concentrates on media coverage of globally live-streamed attack
By Stephen Silver
Palestinian terrorists celebrate the blowing up of a Boac Airliner hijacked to Dawson's field, a desert airstrip North of Amman, Jordan, September 14, 1970. (AP Photo)
September 7, 2024, 3:40 pm
On anniversary of 1970 Black September hijacking, six survivors on life after captivity
As Hamas continues to hold 97 hostages kidnapped on October 7, marking the September 6 PFLP terror group’s takeover of four planes paints new wounds in an old light
By Mati Wagner
A new campaign for Adidas features supermodel Bella Hadid wearing a reissue of sneakers from the 1972 Munich Olympics. (Photos courtesy of Adidas. Design by Jackie Hajdenberg via JTA)
July 19, 2024, 7:38 am
Adidas ‘revising’ campaign for 1972 Munich Olympics shoe that features Bella Hadid
Protests after firm picks model with ‘history of spreading antisemitism, calling for violence’ to promote shoe design from games where 11 Israelis died in Palestinian terror massacre
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Ehud Lavi speaks with Channel 12 news on November 12, 2023 (Screen grab used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
November 13, 2023, 9:32 am
Ex-Mossad deputy head: ‘Unrealistic’ to say Iran didn’t know of Hamas’s Oct. 7 plans
Udi Lavi says top priority of war should be return of hostages; says Hamas leaders can be hunted down in coming months, like Black September terrorists
By ToI Staff
Debris left over from the Swissair, TWA and BOAC flights that were hijacked by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and blown up on a landing strip in the Jordanian desert on September 12, 1970. (AFP)
June 7, 2023, 4:23 pm
Trauma revisited: Historian reconstructs her week aboard a hijacked jet in Jordan
For close to 50 years, Martha Hodes buried memories of being on a plane hijacked by Palestinian terrorists in 1970 – until she decided to uncover all she could about the ordeal
By Amy Spiro
A member of the terrorist group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face stands on the balcony of the building where they held members of the Israeli team hostage in Munich, September 5, 1972. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)
September 1, 2022, 6:46 pm
‘The hostages are dead’: How Munich Olympics massacre was reported 50 years ago
False reports initially said Israeli athletes had been freed; but then reporters ran into Munich’s distraught mayor and learned of the botched police operation
By Pascale Juilliard
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas leave after a press conference at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, on August 16, 2022. (JENS SCHLUETER / AFP)
August 18, 2022, 2:08 pm
In call with Lapid, German leader again condemns Abbas ‘holocausts’ remarks
Olaf Scholz tells PM it was important to personally decry PA president’s allegation; Lapid urges Europe to stop letting Iran drag its feet in nuclear talks
By Lazar Berman
German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, right, welcomes President Reuven Rivlin at a ceremony commemorating the 11 Israeli athletes who were killed in a terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, Germany, September 6, 2017. (AP/Matthias Schrader)
August 18, 2022, 10:33 am
German president mulling Israel visit amid Munich 50th anniversary boycott
Feud with families of those killed in 1972 massacre exacerbated by Abbas ‘holocausts’ comment during press conference with German chancellor
By Ash Obel
File Photo from September 5, 1972, shows a member of the Arab commando group which seized members of the Israeli Olympic Team at their quarters at the Munich Olympic Village appearing with a hood over his face on the balcony of the village building where the commandos held several members of the Israeli team hostage. (AP/Kurt Strumpf, File)
June 2, 2022, 2:27 pm
Bavaria releases all unpublished files on Munich Olympics massacre
Complaints about persistent secrecy had threatened to overshadow planned memorial event for 50th anniversary of attack
By AP
Terrorist Ali Hassan Salameh, left, is seen with then Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in an undated photo (Courtesy)
January 29, 2021, 5:06 am
PA daily and Fatah Facebook page eulogize Munich terror mastermind as role model
Semi-official Fatah account calls Ali Hassan Salameh ‘a beacon on the path to liberation’; official PA newspaper hails a ‘martyr’ and ‘skilled leader’ in memorial article
By ToI Staff
Israeli Olympic racewalker Shaul Ladany holds his 1972's Olympic race shoes for a portrait in Omer, Israel, July 12, 2020. (Ariel Schalit/AP)
August 9, 2020, 3:11 pm
Still going strong, Israeli athlete, 84, recalls surviving 1972 Olympic massacre
Race-walker Shaul Ladany was awoken by a roommate, as Palestinian terrorists tried to round up team members, in notorious Munich assault, managed to escape
By Aron Heller
An Israeli grabs the arm of Theresa Khalsa at Lod International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 9, 1972. (AP Photo)
March 28, 2020, 8:14 pm
Theresa Khalsa, hijacker of 1972 Sabena flight to Tel Aviv, dies at 65
Netanyahu was injured when fellow soldier struck Khalsa and his weapon discharged as commandos stormed plane; she had been released in prisoner deal after First Lebanon War
By ToI Staff
The Black September terror group's chief of operations Ali Hassan Salameh in an undated photo (Courtesy)
December 24, 2019, 6:30 am
The top Mossad spy who befriended his terrorist target — then had him killed
When Agent D was sent to follow the Munich massacre’s architect, he was ordered not to make contact. He broke that rule, and then some: Salameh ‘was a friend — and a mortal enemy’
By ToI Staff
Former congressman Duncan L. Hunter, center, the father of indicted US Rep. Duncan Hunter, speaks at a news conference in support of his son, Oct. 16, 2018, in San Diego (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)
October 17, 2018, 10:43 pm
Father of California Republican smears son’s opponent as terror threat
Former congressman Duncan Hunter Sr. shows photo of Ammar Campa-Najjar with his father, a former PLO member; Campa-Najjar: ‘I don’t need my dad to stand here to fight my battles’
By JULIE WATSON
Composite image of Britain's Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (l) in Brussels on October 19, 2017 and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on July 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert and Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 14, 2018, 11:57 am
Striking back at Netanyahu, Corbyn says Israel killed ‘dozens’ of Gaza kids
UK Labour chief rebuffs PM’s criticism of him for honoring terrorists by attacking both IDF and nation-state law; no response from Jerusalem
By Raphael Ahren
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